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Striped Forest Whiptail
Kentropyx calcarata Spix, 1825
Also calledCalango (por) · Calango-D’água (por) · Calango-Verde (por) · Calango-da-Mata (por) · Calanguinho (por) · Gestreifter Waldpeitschenschwanz (deu) · Kentropix (fra) · Kentropyx des chablis (fra) · Kentropyx à éperons (fra) · Kentropyx à éperons (Le) (fra) · Lagartija selvática rayada (spa) · Lagarto (por) · Lagarto-da-Mata (por) · Lagarto-estriado-da-floresta (por)
First described in: Spix, & Von, J. B. Animalia nova sive species nova lacertarum quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspicius Maximiliani Josephi I Bavariae Regis suscepto collegit et descripsit Dr. J. B. de Spix.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. In the Caatinga it is registered in the states of Bahia, Ceara, Paraiba, Pernambuco and Piaui. It is widespread in the Caatinga and with annual mean temperature 20 to 28 ° C along five ecoregions (Table 1; Appendix S 3). Distributed in low to medium elevation areas (80 - 489 m a. s. l.), with annual mean temperature 23 to 26 ° C, and average annual rainfall between 500 and 1,327 mm.
Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Caatinga, northeastern Brazil: Detailed and updated overview
description
Pertinent taxonomic references. Spix (1825), Wied (1825), Fitzinger (1826), Wagler (1830), Boulenger (1885), Gray (1931), Duméril & Bibron (1939), Cunha (1961), Hoogmoed (1973), Gallagher & Dixon (1980, 1992), Hoogmoed & Gruber (1983), Gallagher et al. (1986), Nascimento et al. (1988), Cole et al. (1995), Ávila- Pires (1995), Reeder et al. (2002), dos Santos et al. (2007), Werneck et al. (2009), Myers et al. (2011), Ávila-Pires et al. (2012), Harvey et al. (2012).
Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. III. Anguidae, Scincidae, Teiidae
distribution
Distribution and habitat. Kentropyx calcarata is widespread in eastern Amazonia, extending through gallery forests into the northern part of the Cerrado, with a disjunct distribution in the Atlantic Forest, occurring in Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, and Venezuela (Fig. 9). In Amazonia it is restricted to the west by the Negro and Madeira river basins (both sides) and the upper Orinoco river (Fig. 9). In Brazil specimens were examined from the states of Amapá, Pará, Maranhão, Amazonas, Roraima, Rondônia, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Piauí (Amazonia / Cerrado regions), Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia (Atlantic Forest). Gallagher & Dixon (1992) mentioned specimens also from Espírito Santo (even though Gallagher et al. 1986 questioned the identity of these southern specimens). Kentropyx calcarata is semi-arboreal and diurnal, inhabits primary and secondary terra firme and varzea forests, always associated with sunny places (e. g. clearings, forest edge and creeks), where it is found mainly on the ground, on trunks and limbs of fallen trees, and amid low vegetation (climbing to heights of 3 – 4 meters — Hoogmoed 1973; Nascimento et al. 1988; Hoogmoed & Ávila-Pires
Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. III. Anguidae, Scincidae, Teiidae
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