Psilops mucugensis Rodrigues, Recoder, Teixeira Jr., Roscito, Guerrero, Nunes, Freitas, Fernandes, Bocchiglieri, Dal Vechio, Leite, Nogueira, Damasceno, Pellegrino, Argolo & Amaro, 2017

Uchoa, Lucas Rafael, Delfim, Fagner Ribeiro, Mesquita, Daniel Oliveira, Colli, Guarino Rinaldi, Garda, Adrian Antonio & Guedes, Thais B., 2022, Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Caatinga, northeastern Brazil: Detailed and updated overview, Vertebrate Zoology 72, pp. 599-659 : 599

Psilops mucugensis Rodrigues, Recoder, Teixeira Jr., Roscito, Guerrero, Nunes, Freitas, Fernandes, Bocchiglieri, Dal Vechio, Leite, Nogueira, Damasceno, Pellegrino, Argolo & Amaro, 2017

Figs 6.5 and 16

Type locality.

Três Irmãos Farm, municipality of Mu-cugê, Serra do Espinhaço (Diamantina Plateau), state of Bahia, Brazil.

Distribution.

Caatinga endemic species. It is recorded only in the state of Bahia. It shows restricted distribution in the Caatinga and occurs along one ecoregion (Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in medium to high elevation areas (587-1,085 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 20 to 24°C, and average annual rainfall between 662 and 917 mm.

Ecological notes.

Fossorial and diurnal ( Rodrigues 1991b). It has a strict association with sandy soils. It was recorded in open areas with a sandy quartzite soil in the municipality of Miguel Calmon, in open semideciduous forest in the municiplaty of Morro do Chapéu, in a plateau covered by lower semideciduous vegetation in Mucugê, and in rupestrian fields in Palmeiras ( Magalhães et al. 2015; Rodrigues et al. 2017). Diet based mainly on arthropods, no information about the preferred items on the diet of this species is known, but it could be similar to other Psilops ( Costa 2015). Oviparous, no detailed data is known about the number of eggs laid by the species, but it could be similar to other Gymnophthalmidae ( Mesquita and Colli 2010; Dal Vechio et al. 2014; Ramiro et al. 2017).

Figures

Figure 6. Lizards recorded in the Caatinga region. 6.1 Micrablepharus maximiliani; 6.2 Nothobachia ablephara; 6.3 Procellosaurinus erythrocercus; 6.4 Procellosaurinus tetradactylus; 6.5 Psilops mucugensis; 6.6 Psilops paeminosus; 6.7 Scriptosaura catimbau, and 6.8 Stenolepis ridleyi. Photograph credits: Mauro Teixeira (6.2, 6.4, 6.6), Marco A. Freitas (6.8), Adrian Garda (6.1, 6.3, 6.5, 6.7).