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Micrablepharus atticolus RODRIGUES, 1996

IUCN Red List - Micrablepharus atticolus - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaGymnophthalmidae (Gymnophthalminae), Gymnophthalmini, Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesPortuguese: Briba, Calango-do-Rabo-Azul, Calanguinho-de-Rabo-Azul, Lagarto-de-Rabo-Azul 
SynonymMicrablepharus atticolus RODRIGUES 1996
Micrablepharus atticolus — PIANKA & VITT 2003: 194
Micrablepharus atticolus — CASTOE et al. 2004
Micrablepharus allicolus — EZAZ et al. 2009 (in error)
Micrablepharus atticolus — ARAUJO et al. 2011 
DistributionBrazil (Mato Grosso, Goiás, São Paulo)

Type locality: Alto Araguaia (Fazenda Balsamo): Mato Grosso: Brazil.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MZUSP 69.671 (Fig. 1), an adult female, collected by Laurie Vitt on 23 April 1989. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Micrablepharus atticolus is distinguished from M. maximiliani (condition in parentheses) by the following characters: (1) fourth supralabial under the eye (fifth); (2) femoral pores present in both sexes, eight in males, 5-7 in females (10-15, males only); and (3) a pair of lateral and dorsolateral, longitudinal, white stripes on the body (lateral pair absent).


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CommentProbably also in Bolivia (fide LANGSTROTH 2005). 
EtymologyThe epithet specific is an adjective that alludes to the nests of the leaf-cutter ants (Atta laevigata) where these lizards seek refuge and frequently are found. 
References
  • ARAUJO, C.O. & ALMEIDA-SANTOS, S.M. 2011. Herpetofauna in a cerrado remnant in the state of Sao Paulo, Southeastern Brazil. [in Portuguese] Biota Neotropica 11 (3): 47-62 - get paper here
  • ARAUJO, C.O. & ALMEIDA-SANTOS, S.M. 2011. Herpetofauna de um remanescente de Cerrado no estado de São Paulo, sudeste do Brasil. Biota Neotrop. 11(3): 47-62 - get paper here
  • Araujo, Cybele O.; Fábio Maffei, Décio T. Corrêa, Guilherme M. Moya, Bruno T. M. Nascimento, Selma Maria A. Santos 2014. Lizards from Estação Ecológica de Santa Bárbara, a remnant of Cerrado in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Check List 10 (5): 1038-10 - get paper here
  • Ávila, R.W.; R.A. Kawashita-Ribeiro. 2011. Herpetofauna of São João da Barra Hydroelectric Plant, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Check List 7 (6): 750-755 - get paper here
  • Bertolotto, C.E.V.; K.C.M. Pellegrino and Y. Yonenaga-Yassuda 2004. Occurrence of B chromosomes in lizards: a review. Cytogenet Genome Res 106: 243–246 - get paper here
  • Bressan, Paulo Magalhães; Maria Cecília Martins Kierulff, Angélica Midori Sugieda (eds.) 2009. FAUNA AMEAÇADA DE EXTINÇÃO NO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO: VERTEBRADOS. São Paulo: Fundação Parque Zoológico de São Paulo: Secretaria do Meio Ambiente, 2009. - get paper here
  • Brito-Filho, Marcelo A; Ralph L Albuquerque, Alisson M Gainsburry, Guarino R Colli, and Daniel O Mesquita 2025. Reproduction, Diet, and Sexual Dimorphism in Micrablepharus atticolus (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) in Cerrado Enclaves Within Brazilian Amazon Forest. Journal of Herpetology 58 (4): 389-400 - 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
  • Ezaz, T. et al. 2009. Sex Chromosome Evolution in Lizards: Independent Origins and Rapid Transitions. Cytogenet Genome Res 127: 249-260 - get paper here
  • Gonçalves-Santos, Marcella; Cristiano Nogueira, Lilian Gimenes Giugliano and Guarino Rinaldi Colli 2014. Landscape evolution and phylogeography of Micrablepharus atticolus (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae), an endemic lizard of the Brazilian Cerrado. Journal of Biogeography 41: 1506–1519, doi:10.1111/jbi.12291 - get paper here
  • Gonzalez R. C. et al. 2020. Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214 - get paper here
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  • Mesquita, Gabryella Sousa; Denes Ferraz, Werther Pereira Ramalho, Ibere Farina Machado, Wilian Vaz-Silva 2018. Death-feigning as defensive behavior in blue-tailed microteiid lizard Micrablepharus atticolus Rodrigues, 1996. Herpetology Notes 11: 1065-1067 - get paper here
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  • Ramalho, Werther Pereira; Vinícius Guerra Batista; Luciano Roberto Passos Lozi 2014. Anfíbios e répteis do médio rio Aporé, estados de Mato Grosso do Sul e Goiás, Brasil. Neotropical Biology and Conservation 9 (3): 147-160; doi: 10.4013/nbc.2014.93.04 - get paper here
  • RIBEIRO-JÚNIOR, MARCO A. & SILVANA AMARAL 2017. Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. IV. Alopoglossidae, Gymnophthalmidae. Zootaxa 4269 (2): 151-196 - get paper here
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  • Rodrigues, M. T. 1996. A new species of lizard, genus Micrablepharus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), from Brazil. Herpetologica 52 (4): 535-541. - get paper here
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  • Silva, J.R., Ramalho, W.P., De Arruda, F.V., De-Carvalho, C.B. & Do Prodo, V.H.M. 2017. Micrablepharus atticolus Predation. Herpetological Review 48 (3): 652. - get paper here
  • Sousa, Heitor C. de; Ana Hermínia S.B. Soares, Bernardo M. Costa, Davi L. Pantoja, Gabriel H. Caetano, Tânia A. de Queiroz, and Guarino R. Colli 2015. Fire Regimes and the Demography of the Lizard Micrablepharus atticolus (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) in a Biodiversity Hotspot. South American J. Herp. 10 (3): 143-156. - get paper here
  • Valdujo, Paula Hanna; Cristiano de Campos Nogueira; Leandro Baumgarten; Flavio Henrique Guimarães Rodrigues; Reuber Albuquerque Brandão; André Eterovic; Mário Barroso Ramos-Neto; Otavio A. V. Marques 2009. Squamate Reptiles from Parque Nacional das Emas and surroundings, Cerrado of Central Brazil. Check List 5 (3): 405–417 - get paper here
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