Common Golden Tegu

distribution

Distribution. In the Caatinga it is registered in the states of Bahia, Ceara, and Piaui. It is widespread in the Caatinga and with annual mean temperature 20 to 28 ° C along two ecoregions (Table 1; Appendix S 3). Distributed in low to medium elevation areas (5 - 405 m a. s. l.), with annual mean temperature 26 to 28 ° C, and annual average annual rainfall between 726 and 1,311 mm.

Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Caatinga, northeastern Brazil: Detailed and updated overview

description

Pertinent taxonomic references. Linnaeus (1758), Laurenti (1768), Latreille (1801), Daudin (1802), Spix (1825), Gray (1838, 1845), Duméril & Bibron (1839), Bates (1864), Boulenger (1885), Andersson (1900), Cunha (1961, 1981), Müller (1969, 1971), Gorman (1970), Hoogmoed (1973), Presch (1973), Hoogmoed & Lescure (1975), Duellman (1978), Vanzolini (1981), Hoogmoed & Gruber (1983), Cunha et al. (1985), Ávila-Pires (1995), Manzane & Abe (1997, 2002), Colli et al. (1998), Fitzgerald et al. (1999), Giugliano et al. (2007), Harvey et al. (2012), Murphy et al. (2016). Taxonomic remarks. Recently, Murphy et al. (2016) revised Tupinambis teguixin species complex and described three new species from Amazonia and surroundings (T. cryptus, T. cuzcoensis, and T. zuliensis). The authors presented evidences for differentiation of each species based on molecular results. However, the morphological results failed in supporting such differences. Although specimens belonging to T. cryptus, T. cuzcoensis, and T. teguixin differed significantly in molecular from geographically separated groups, the same was not true for morphology. A large amount of geographic variation was observed in different populat

Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. III. Anguidae, Scincidae, Teiidae

distribution

Distribution and habitat. Tupinambis teguixin species complex is widespread in Amazonia and northern Brazilian Cerrado (in gallery forest contiguous with Amazonia), occurring in Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia (Fig. 10). In Brazil it is known from the states of Amapá, Pará, Maranhão, Tocantins, Amazonas, Roraima, Acre, Rondônia, Mato Grosso, and Goiás. Passos et al. (2013) reported the species in the state of Ceará, northeastern Brazil, in riparian forest within the Caatinga. Tupinambis teguixin species complex is terrestrial and diurnal, inhabits both terra firme and flooded forest (primary and secondary), as well as arboreal savannas and grassfields close to forest and perianthropic situations, even within cities, where it is found on the ground, and commonly associated with water sometimes entering it (Crump 1971; Hoogmoed 1973; Dixon & Soini 1975, 1986; Duellman 1978; Cunha 1981; Martins 1991; Ávila-Pires 1995; Vitt & Carvalho 1995; Vitt et al. 2001, 2008; Molina et al. 2004; Schlüter et al. 2004; Ribeiro-Júnior et al. 2008; Waldez et al. 2013; Murphy et al. 2016).

Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. III. Anguidae, Scincidae, Teiidae