Check List 10(5): 1213-1217, doi: 10.15560/10.5.1213
First records of Tropidurus callathelys and T. chromatops (Reptilia: Squamata: Tropiduridae) in Brazil
Carlos José S. Morais‡, André Felipe Barreto-Lima‡, Pedro T. Dantas‡, Fabrícius M. C. B. Domingos§, Roger M. D. Ledo|, Davi L. Pantoja‡, Heitor C. de Sousa‡, Guarino R. Colli‡‡ Universidade de Brasília, Brazil§ Universidade de Brasília; Flinders University, Brazil| Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Brasília, Brazil
Corresponding author: Guarino Colli ( grcolli@unb.br ) © 2017 Carlos José Morais, André Barreto-Lima, Pedro Dantas, Fabrícius Domingos, Roger Ledo, Davi Pantoja, Heitor de Sousa, Guarino Colli. 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:
Colli G, Barreto-Lima A, Pantoja D, Dantas P, Ledo R, Morais C, de Sousa H, Domingos F (2014) First records of Tropidurus callathelys and T. chromatops (Reptilia: Squamata: Tropiduridae) in Brazil. Check List 10(5): 1213-1217. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.5.1213 |  |
Abstract
We present the first records of Tropidurus callathelys and T. chromatops in Brazil, at Parque Estadual Serra Ricardo Franco, Mato Grosso. The two species are largely syntopic and associated with rock outcrops on the plateaus of the Serranía de Huanchaca, Bolivia and Brazil. Tropidurus callathelys is more abundant, more heliophilous and uses vertical surfaces more often than T. chromatops. In Brazil, they are apparently restricted to Serra de Ricardo Franco, a protected area threatened by cattle raising, logging and agriculture, still in need of demarcation and a management plan.
Keywords
lizard; Mato Grosso state; syntopic species