Enyalius catenatus (Wied, 1821)

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

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.72.e78828

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scientific name

Enyalius catenatus (Wied, 1821)
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Enyalius catenatus (Wied, 1821) View in CoL

Figs 7.5 and 16 View Figure 7

Type locality.

Cabeça do Boi, Bahia, Brazil (fide Etheridge 1968) [= Jequié, Bahia]; "sertao (= interior) of Bahia" (fide Jackson 1978).

Distribution.

In the Caatinga it is registered in the states of Alagoas, Bahia and Pernambuco. It is widespread in the Caatinga and occurs along three ecoregions (Table 1 View Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to high elevation areas (96-1,006 m a.s.l.), annual mean temperature 20 to 24°C, and average annual rainfall between 635 and 1,398 mm.

Ecological notes.

Semiarboreal and diurnal ( Rodrigues et al. 2014). It occurs in humid forest enclaves of the Caatinga, with shaded environments and abundant litter ( Arzabe et al. 2005) Diet based mainly on arthropods, being Isoptera , insect larvae and Hymenoptera the most representative items ( Cruz et al. 2018). Oviparous, no detailed data is known about the number of eggs laid by the species, but it could be similar to other Enyalius ( Migliore et al. 2014).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Order

Squamata

Family

Leiosauridae

Genus

Enyalius