Gymnodactylus geckoides Spix, 1825

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

Gymnodactylus geckoides Spix, 1825

Figs 7.8 and 17

Type locality.

State of Bahia, Brasil.

Distribution.

In the Caatinga it is registered in the states of Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, and Sergipe. It is widespread in the Caatinga and occurs along all ecoregions (Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to high elevation areas (34-1,006 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 20 to 28°C, and average annual rainfall between 374 and 1,479 mm.

Ecological notes.

Terrestrial and crespuscular/nocturnal (Vanzolini et al. 1981; Vitt 1995; Andrade et al. 2013; TBG and FRD pers. obs.). It is occurring in all kinds of caatinga vegetation, in open and forest environments in litter, trunks and rocky outcrops beyond coastal restinga (Vanzolini et al. 1980; Vanzolini 2004). Diet based mainly on arthropods, being Isoptera and Formicidae the most representative items ( Colli et al. 2003). Oviparous, the female usually lays one egg at a time ( Vitt 1992; Souza-Oliveira et al. 2017).

Figures

Figure 7. Lizards recorded in the Caatinga region. 7.1 Vanzosaura multiscutata; 7.2 Hoplocercus spinosus; 7.3 Iguana iguana; 7.4 Enyalius bibronii; 7.5 Enyalius catenatus; 7.6 Enyalius erythroceneus; 7.7 Enyalius pictus, and 7.8 Gymnodactylus geckoides. Photograph credits: Daniel Mesquita (7.3, 7.8), Marco A. Freitas (7.5, 7.6, 7.7), Adrian Garda (7.1, 7.2, 7.4).