Vanzosaura savanicola RECODER, WERNECK, TEXEIRA JR, COLLI, SITES & RODRIGUES, 2014

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Higher Taxa	Gymnophthalmidae (Gymnophthalminae), Gymnophthalmini, Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	Portuguese: Calango-da-Savana, Calango-Listrado, Lagarto-de-Rabo-Vermelho
Synonym	Vanzosaura savanicola RECODER, WERNECK, TEXEIRA JR, COLLI, SITES & RODRIGUES 2014
Distribution	Brazil (Tocantins) Type locality: Estação Ecológica Serra Geral do Tocantins (11°14′51.3′′S, 46°55′05.1′′W; 590 m elevation.; datum WGS84), municipality of Almas, state of Tocantins, Brazil (Fig. 10 in Recoder et al. 2014)
Reproduction	oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: MZUSP 103202 (field number MTR 14754) collected on 4 February 2008 by M.T. Rodrigues, R.S. Recoder, M. Teixeira Jr, A. Camacho, T. Mott, P.H. Valdujo, J.M. Ghellere, P. Nunes, and C. Nogueira. Paratypes: MZUSP.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Vanzosaura savanicola sp. nov. is characterized by: (1) 6–21 smooth subcaudals; (2) 12–16 femoral pores in males; (3) snout acute in profile; (4) forelimbs long relative to trunk length, with FAL 60.8 ± 0.03% of TRL in females and 63.3 ± 0.02% in males; (5) colour pattern ‘complex’, with eight to ten whitish dorsal stripes that become irregular or discontinuous on the head; (6) inner and outer ventral row of scales nearly subequal in width; (7) prefrontal scales usually separated (66%); (8) small size for the genus, with largest male attaining 34.5 mm SVL and largest female attaining 35.6 mm SVL; (9) proportionally long tails, with an average size of complete tails (not regenerated) in relation to body size (TAL/SVL) of 1.74 ± 0.19. Additional details (1676 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	The specific epithet makes reference to the distribution of the new species in savannah habitats, the predominant type of vegetation in the Cerrado region of central South America.
References	Costa, Henrique Caldeira & Renato Silveira Bérnils 2015. Répteis brasileiros: lista de espécies 2015. Herpetologia Brasileira 4 (3): 75-93 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 Oliveira, J. S., Santana, D. J., Pantoja, D. L., Ceron, K., & Guedes, T. B. 2024. Climate change in open environments: Revisiting the current distribution to understand and safeguard the future of psammophilous squamates of the Diagonal of Open Formations of South America. Journal of Arid Environments, 220, 105117 - get paper here Recoder, Renato Sousa; Fernanda De Pinho Werneck, Mauro Teixeira Jr, Guarino Rinaldi Colli, Jack Walter Sites Jr and Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues 2014. Geographic variation and systematic review of the lizard genus Vanzosaura (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae), with the description of a new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171 (1): 206–225 - get paper here Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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