Check List 9(6): 1524-1526, doi: 10.15560/9.6.1524
New state record and distribution extension of the golden tegu Tupinambis teguixin (Linnaeus, 1758) (Squamata: Teiidae) to the Caatinga biome, northeastern Brazil
Daniel Cunha Passos‡, Frede Lima-Araujo§, Ana Carolina Brasileiro Melo§, Diva Maria Borges-Nojosa|‡ Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil§ Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú, Brazil| Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Corresponding author: Daniel Passos ( biologodanielpassos@gmail.com ) © 2017 Daniel Passos, Frede Lima-Araujo, Ana Melo, Diva Borges-Nojosa. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Passos D, Melo A, Lima-Araujo F, Borges-Nojosa D (2013) New state record and distribution extension of the golden tegu Tupinambis teguixin (Linnaeus, 1758) (Squamata: Teiidae) to the Caatinga biome, northeastern Brazil. Check List 9(6): 1524-1526. https://doi.org/10.15560/9.6.1524 |  |
Abstract
We expand the distribution of Tupinambis teguixin to the Caatinga biome, and report the first record of this species in Ceará state, northeastern Brazil. We found T. teguixin at a typical Caatinga habitat, approximately 215 km from the nearest locality with known record of the species. Our findings expand the knowledge of Caatinga’s herpetofauna, reinforcing the deficiency of information from several areas, and the necessity of additional surveys in this biome.
Keywords
Reptilia; Squamata; Teiidae; Caatinga; new record; range extension; Ceará; Brazil