Tropidurus cocorobensis Rodrigues, 1987

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

Tropidurus cocorobensis Rodrigues, 1987

Figs 11.6 and 19

Type locality.

Cocorobó, state of Bahia, Brazil.

Distribution.

Caatinga endemic species. It is registered in the states of Alagoas, Bahia, Pernambuco, and Sergipe. It is widespread in the Caatinga and with annual mean temperature 20 to 28°C along four ecoregions (Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to high elevation areas (30-1,116 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 19 to 26°C, and average annual rainfall between 447 and 1,452 mm.

Ecological notes.

Terrestrial and diurnal. It is a psammophilic species occurring in sandy soils, with relictual distribution in semi-arid environments along the Caatinga ( Rodrigues 1987, 2003). Diet based mainly on arthropods, being Formicidae , Orthoptera , and Araneae the most representative items ( Costa 2015), having the first report of saurophagy in the species, where a microendemic and threatened gymnophthalmid lizard ( S. catimbau ) was the prey ( Oliveira and Nunes 2020). Oviparous, no detailed data is known about the number of eggs laid by the species, but it could be similar to other Tropidurus ( Vitt 1991; Ávila et al. 2008).

Figures

Figure 11. Lizards recorded in the Caatinga region. 11.1 Tupinambis teguixin; 11.2 Eurolophosaurus amathites; 11.3 Eurolophosaurus divaricatus; 11.4 Stenocercus squarrosus; 11.5 Strobilurus torquatus; 11.6 Tropidurus cocorobensis; 11.7 Tropidurus erythrocephalus, and 11.8 Tropidurus etheridgei. Photograph credits: Daniel Mesquita (11.1, 11.4), Marco A. Freitas (11.2, 11.3, 11.5, 11.7, 11.8), Adrian Garda (11.6).