Glaucomastix venetacauda (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

Glaucomastix venetacauda (Arias, Carvalho, Rodrigues & Zaher, 2011)

Figs 10.6 and 18

Type locality.

Olho D’água da Santa, 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 with annual mean temperature 20 to 28°C along two ecoregions (Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to medium elevation areas (259-583 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 25 to 27°C, and average annual rainfall between 702 and 1,029 mm.

Ecological notes.

Terrestrial and diurnal. It can be found in areas with sandy soils with sandstone outcrops of the Parque Nacional Serra das Confusões. They often took refuge under rocks, fallen logs, piles of rubble or small holes in the groundalong the caatinga vegetation ( Arias et al. 2011b). Diet based mainly on arthropods, being Pseudoescorpiones and Isoptera the most representative items ( Cavalcanti et al. in press). 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; Xavier et al. 2019).

Figures

Figure 10. Lizards recorded in the Caatinga region. 10.1 Ameivula confusioniba; 10.2 Ameivula nigrigula; 10.3 Ameivula ocellifera; 10.4 Ameivula pyrrhogularis; 10.5 Glaucomastix cyanura; 10.6 Glaucomastix venetacauda; 10.7 Kentropyx calcarata, and 10.8 Salvator merianae. Photograph credits: Adrian Garda (10.1, 10.3, 10.6, 10.7), Daniel Mesquita (10.2), Davi Pantoja (10.4), Ricardo Marques (10.5), Fagner Delfim (10.8).