Hoplocercus spinosus Fitzinger, 1843

Ribeiro-Júnior, Marco A., 2015, Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. I. Dactyloidae, Hoplocercidae, Iguanidae, Leiosauridae, Polychrotidae, Tropiduridae, Zootaxa 3983 (3), pp. 1-110 : 17

Hoplocercus spinosus Fitzinger, 1843

Type-locality. Brazil.

Pertinent taxonomic references. Fitzinger (1843), Duméril (1854; 1855), Boulenger (1885), Vanzolini (1977), Nascimento et al. (1988), Brygoo (1989), Ávila-Pires (1995), Torres-Carvajal et al. (2011).

Distribution and habitat. Hoplocercus spinosus is widespread in the Brazilian Cerrado, and it is present in several open vegetation enclaves of southern peripheral Amazonia ( Fig. 10 ). In Brazil it is known from the states of Maranhão, Pará, Mato Grosso and Rondônia (Amazonian region), and from Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás, Minas Gerais, and in the Distrito Federal (Cerrado region). Dirksen & de la Riva (1999) reported the species to Bolívia. Hoplocercus spinosus is terrestrial/semifossorial and diurnal, in Amazonia it inhabitats gallery forests, semideciduous forests, cerrado enclaves surrounded by dense forest, and in rock outcrops in sandy areas covered with low vegetation, where it is found on the ground, under stones and in holes 30–40 centimeters deep in the ground with entrances 2–4 centimeters in diameter ( Carvalho 1949; Sick 1951; Nascimento et al. 1988; Vitt 1993; Vitt & Caldwell 1993; Ávila-Pires 1995).

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FIGURE 10. Distribution of examined material of Enyaliloides palpebralis and Hoplocercus spinosus.