Colobosauroides cearensis Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991

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

Colobosauroides cearensis Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991

Figs 5.5 and 15

Type locality.

Sítio Lorena, municipality of Mulungu, Serra de Baturité, state of Ceará, Brazil.

Distribution.

Caatinga endemic species. It is registered in the states of Ceará, Paraíba, and Piauí. It is widespread in the Caatinga and occurs along three ecoregions (Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to high elevation areas (18-855 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 22 to 28°C, and average annual rainfall between 760 and 1,573 mm.

Ecological notes.

Fossorial and diurnal. In habits shaded microhabitats in the Caatinga and prefers microenvironments with leaf litter and minimal direct exposure to sunlight ( Borges-Nojosa and Caramaschi 2003; Rodrigues 2003; Silva Neta et al. 2019). Diet based mainly on arthropods, being Hymenoptera , Isoptera and Insect larvae the most representative items. Oviparous, the female usually lays two eggs at a time ( Silva Neta et al. 2019).

Figures

Figure 5. Lizards recorded in the Caatinga region. 5.1 Calyptommatus sinebrachiatus; 5.2 Cercosaura olivacea; 5.3 Colobosaura modesta; 5.4 Colobosauroides carvalhoi; 5.5 Colobosauroides cearensis; 5.6 Dryadosaura nordestina; 5.7 Heterodactylus septentrionalis and 5.8 Leposoma baturitensis. Photograph credits: Ricardo Marques (5.1), Mauro Teixeira (5.4), Daniel Mesquita (5.3), Kassio Araujo (5.5), Marco A. Freitas (5.7), Adrian Garda (5.2, 5.6).