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Leposoma baturitensis RODRIGUES & BORGES, 1997

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Higher TaxaGymnophthalmidae (Ecpleopodinae), Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLeposoma baturitensis RODRIGUES & BORGES 1997: 2
Leposoma baturitensis — RODRIGUES & AVILA-PIRES 2005
Leposoma baturitensis — DAMASCENO et al. 2020 
DistributionNE Brazil (Ceara)

Type locality: Serrade Baturite (Sitio Barbosa):Pacoti:State of Ceara: Brazil (4°10'S,38°55'W; 800 m elevation)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MZUSP 79.378, an adult male, collected by Diva Maria Borges on 8 February 1989. Paratypes.-All collected at Serra de Baturite: State of Ceara: Brazil. MZUSP 79.379,female,Sitio Sao Goncalo do Freire: Pacoti; collected by D. M. Borges on 23 August 1991. UFC 1948, male, Sitio Arabia Guaramiranga; collected by D. M. Borgeson July 1989. UFC 1951, male, and UFC 1952-1953, females, Sitio Sao Jose, Guaramiranga; collected by R.Otoch and L.P.Castro on 7 April 1994. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A Leposoma having a single frontonasal scale, lanceolate ventrals in transverse (but not longitudinal) rows, conical granules on the side of the neck, and strong sexual dimorphism in color pattern; ventral color cream in females, black in males. (Rodrigues & Borges 1997)


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CommentDistribution: see map in Rodrigues & Borges 1997: 4 (Fig. 3) 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • Borges-Nojosa, D. M. & Caramaschi, U. 2003. Composição e análise comparativa da diversidade e das afinidades biogeográficas dos lagartos e anfisbenídeos (Squamata) dos brejos nordestinos. In: I.R. Leal, M. Tabarelli & J.M.C. Silva (eds.). Ecologia e conservação da Caatinga, pp. 181-236. Editora Universitária, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil.
  • Castro, Déborah; Daniel Cassiano-Lima, Kássio C. Araújo, Mariny Oliveira Arruda, Castiele H. Bezerra, M. Juliana Borges-Leite, Bruno F. Guilhon, Antônio Rafael Lima Ramos, Sonia Zanini Cechin, Robson W. Ávila & Diva M. Borges-Nojosa 2025. Herpetofauna from a Caatinga’s Brejo de altitude in Northeast Brazil. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, - get paper here
  • Damasceno, Roberta P, Ana Carolina Carnaval, Chodon Sass, Renato Sousa Recoder, Craig Moritz, and Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues. 2020. Geographic Restriction, Genetic Divergence, and Morphological Disparity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forests: Insights from Leposoma Lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Squamata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 154: 106993 - get paper here
  • DUBEUX, M. J. M., SOUZA, U. F., LOURENÇO-DE-MORAES, R. I. C. A. R. D. O., PEREIRA-FILHO, G. A., SALES, R. F., DELFIM, F. R., ... & NUNES, P. M. 2025. Amphisbaenians and lizards of the Pernambuco Endemism Center: species richness, sampling gaps, and conservation status in one of the most threatened regions of the Atlantic Forest. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 97, e20240284 - get paper here
  • PASSOS, P., RODRIGUES, R., PINNA, P. H., WOITOVICZ-CARDOSO, M. A. N. O. E. L. A., FERNANDES, R., & CARAMASCHI, U. 2025. Filling gaps between museum and society: An illustrated catalog of the primary type specimens of Squamata housed in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Zootaxa 5698(1): 1-91 - get paper here
  • Roberto, I. J., R. W. Ávila & A. R. Melgarejo 2015. Répteis (Testudines, Squamata, Crocodylia) da reserva biológica de Pedra Talhada. In: Atuder, A., l. Nusbaumer & R. Spichiger (eds.). biodiversidade da reserva biológica de Pedra talhada (alagoas, Pernambuco - brasil). Boissiera 68: 357-375 - get paper here
  • Roberto, Igor Joventino and Ciro Albano. 2012. Aspects of the clutch size and oviposition period of Leposoma baturitensis (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae). Herpetology Notes 6: 445-446
  • Rodrigues M T. 1997. A new species of Leposoma (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Atlantic forest of Brazil. Herpetologica 53 (3): 383-389. - get paper here
  • Rodrigues, M.T. and D.M. Borges 1997. A new species of Leposoma (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from a relictual forest in semiarid northeastern Brazil. Herpetologica 53 (1): 1-6 - get paper here
  • Rodrigues, Miguel T. and Teresa C. S. Avila-Pires 2005. New lizard of the genus Leposoma (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from the Lower Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil. Journal of Herpetology 39 (4): 541-546 - get paper here
  • Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut, et al. 2002. A new species of Leposoma (Squamata, Gymnopthalmidae) from the remnant Atlantic Forests of the state of Bahia, Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 42 (14): 335-350 - get paper here
  • RODRIGUES, MIGUEL TREFAUT; MAURO TEIXEIRA JR., RENATO SOUSA RECODER, FRANCISCO DAL VECHIO, ROBERTA DAMASCENO & KATIA CRISTINA MACHADO PELLEGRINO 2013. A new species of Leposoma (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) with four fingers from the Atlantic Forest central corridor in Bahia, Brazil. Zootaxa 3635 (4): 459–475 [available at https://www.academia.edu/33783438/] - get paper here
  • Uchôa LR, Delfim FR, Mesquita DO, Colli GR, Garda AA, Guedes TB 2022. Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Caatinga, northeastern Brazil: Detailed and updated overview. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 599-659 - get paper here
 
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