Calyptommatus frontalis Recoder, Marques-Souza, Silva-Soares, Ramiro, Castro & Rodrigues, 2022
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Recoder, Renato, Sergio Marques-Souza, Thiago Silva-Soares, Carolina N. Ramiro, Thiago M. Castro & Miguel T. Rodrigues. 2022. Morphological variation and genealogical discordance in Caatinga sand lizards Calyptommatus Rodrigues 1991 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 5129(3): 374-398.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Squamata
- family
- Gymnophthalmidae
- genus
- Calyptommatus
- species
- Calyptommatus frontalis
description
Figs 4.6 and 14
distribution
Distribution. Caatinga endemic species. It is recorded only in the state of Bahia. It shows restricted distribution in the Caatinga and occurs along one ecoregion (Table 1; Appendix S 3). Distributed in medium elevation areas (503 - 600 m a. s. l.), with annual mean temperature 24 ° C, and average annual rainfall between 942 and 953 mm.