Heterodactylus imbricatus Spix, 1825

Zocca, Cassio, Barreto-Lima, Andre Felipe, Daleprane, Dulce Barbosa & Ghilardi-Lopes, Natalia P., 2023, Citizen science expanding knowledge: a new record of the lizard Heterodactylus imbricatus (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) in south-eastern Brazil, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 107929-107929 : 107929

Heterodactylus imbricatus Spix, 1825

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceID: 3F14EFEE-48EB-55EC-9A51-25EE0D9F01BF; Location: locationID: Reserva Biologica Augusto Ruschi ; higherGeographyID: TGN: 9158266; higherGeography: South America , Brazil, Espírito Santo; continent: South America ; country: Brazil; countryCode: Brazil /BRA; stateProvince: Espírito Santo; municipality: Santa Teresa ; verbatimElevation: 790 m; locationAccordingTo: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ", "GADM"; verbatimCoordinates: 19 52 54.4S 40 34 27.7W; verbatimLatitude: 19 52 54.4S; verbatimLongitude: 40 34 27.7W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: unknown; georeferencedBy: Cássio Zocca (CZ); georeferenceVerificationStatus: verified by curator; Record Level: type: StillImage

Description

An adult specimen of Heterodactylus imbricatus (Fig. 2 )

Taxon discussion

Heterodactylus imbricatus Spix, 1825 is a species of the order Squamata , of the family Gymnopthalimidae Fitzinger, 1826, inserted in the tribe Heterodactylini ( Goicoechea et al. 2016).

Heterodactylus imbricatus is restricted to areas with a cold climate associated with high elevations and mountainous areas of south-eastern Brazil and is usually found in leaf litter ( Dixo and Verdade 2006, Rodrigues et al. 2009a). Initially, the known distribution of this species was restricted to areas of the Atlantic Forest, but Novelli et al. (2011) recorded its occurrence in the domain of the Cerrado biome.

Figures

Figure 2. Adult of Heterodactylus imbricatus (dorsal view) recorded by a volunteer citizen at her residence, near the protected area " Reserva Biologica Augusto Ruschi ", Municipality of Santa Teresa, State of Espirito Santo, Brazil.