Ameivula confusioniba (Arias, Carvalho, Rodrigues & Zaher, 2011)

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

publication ID

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

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scientific name

Ameivula confusioniba (Arias, Carvalho, Rodrigues & Zaher, 2011)
status

 

Ameivula confusioniba (Arias, Carvalho, Rodrigues & Zaher, 2011) View in CoL

Figs 10.1 and 18 View Figure 10

Type locality.

Toca da Cabocla, municipality of Caracol, Parque Nacional da Serra das Confusões, state of Piauí, Brazil.

Distribution.

Caatinga endemic species. It is recorded only in the state of Piauí. It shows restricted distribution in the Caatinga and occurs along one ecoregion (Table 1 View Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in medium elevation areas (310-596 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 25 to 26°C, and average annual rainfall between 827 and 940 mm.

Ecological notes.

Terrestrial and diurnal. It is seen foraging among tufts of Caatinga on white sand soils. Eventually found crossing rocky areas ( Arias et al. 2011a, 2011b). Diet based mainly on arthropods, no information about the preferred items on the diet of this species is known. Oviparous, no detailed data is known about the number of eggs laid by the species, but it could be similar to other Ameivula ( Mesquita and Colli 2003; Sales and Freire 2016).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Squamata

Family

Teiidae

Genus

Ameivula