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Acratosaura mentalis (AMARAL, 1933)

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Higher TaxaGymnophthalmidae (Gymnophthalminae), Iphisini, Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Amaral's Colobosaura
Portuguese: Teiú-Pigmeu 
SynonymColobosaura mentalis AMARAL 1933
Colobosaura mentalis — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 99
Colobosaura mentalis — CASTOE et al. 2004
Acratosaura mentalis — RODRIGUES et al. 2007 
DistributionBrazil (Bahia, Sergipe, Rio Grande do norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Minas Gerais, Ceará)

Type locality: Villa Nova (= Senhor do Bonfim), Bahia, Brazil.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MZUSP 788 A, male (Museu Paulista) 
DiagnosisDEFINITION (genus) Acratosaura: A microteiid characterized by a distinctive ear opening and eyelid, large tail, and slender pentadactyl limbs. Frontonasal single; prefrontals, frontoparietals, parietals, and interparietals present. Parietals longer than wide. Collar fold absent. Three pairs of genials and three supraoculars. Dorsal scales anteriorly smooth, large in the occipital region, becoming gradually elongated, lanceolate, and strongly keeled posteriorly. Occipitals present. Ventral scales quadrangular, in longitudinal but not in regularly transverse rows; laterally imbricate, irregular in size and shape, scales of external rows slightly wider. Males with continuous series of very conspicuous pores without gap between preanal and femoral; pores absent in females. Frontal bone anteriorly divided. 
CommentType Species: Colobosaura mentalis AMARAL 1933 is the type species of the genus Acratosaura RODRIGUES et al. 2007. 
EtymologyFrom the Greek akratos, meaning ‘‘unmixed, pure’’; here intended to reflect its unmixed condition after being dismembered from the polyphyletic Colobosaura. 
References
  • Amaral, A. do 1933. Estudos sobre Lacertilios neotropicos. I. novos generos e especies de largartos do Brasil. Mem. Inst. Butantan 7 [1932]: 51-75 - get paper here
  • Bezerra, P. E. S., Santana, F. M., & de Moura, G. J. B. 2021. Sustainability assessment of a lizard assemblage in Pernambuco state, Brazil. Journal for Nature Conservation, 125957
  • Brito, M.S.; L.F.S. Barbosa; L.C.M. Pereira; P.A. Nicola; L.B. Ribeiro. 2012. Range extension, new state record and geographic distribution map of Acratosaura mentalis (Amaral, 1933) (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae). Check List 8(1):172-174 - get paper here
  • Castoe, T.A.; Doan, T.M. & Parkinson, C.L. 2004. Data partitions and complex models in Bayesian analysis: the phylogeny of Gymnophthalmid lizards. Systematic Biology 53 (3): 448-469 - get paper here
  • Centeno, Fernanda C.; Mauro Teixeira Junior, Renato Recoder, Denis V. Andrade and Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues 2014. Updated distribution map of Acratosaura mentalis (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) with a note on feeding ecology of the treefrog Bokermannohyla alvarengai (Anura, Hylidae). Herpetology Notes 7: 783-786
  • Cunha, O.R. da 1977. Lacertílios da Amazonia VI - Uma nova especie de lagarto (Colobosaura landii) da região leste do Pará (Lacertilia, Teiidae). Bol. Mus. Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Zool. 86: 1-13
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  • Medeiros-Magalhães, Felipe de; Daniel Orsi Laranjeiras, Taís Borges Costa, Flora Acuña Juncá, Daniel Oliveira Mesquita, David Lucas Röhr, Willianilson Pessoa da Silva, Gustavo Henrique Calazans Vieira, Adrian Antonio Garda 2015. Herpetofauna of protected areas in the Caatinga IV: Chapada Diamantina National Park, Bahia, Brazil. Herpetology Notes 8: 243-261 - get paper here
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