Tropidurus hygomi explained

Tropidurus hygomi, also known commonly as Reinhardt's lava lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Tropiduridae. The species is native to the Northeast Region of Brazil.

Etymology

The specific name, hygomi, is in honor of Danish merchant seaman Vilhelm Johannes Willaius Hygom (born 1818), who collected natural history specimens, both land and marine.^[1]

Geographic range

T. hygomi is found in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Sergipe.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of T. hygomi is sandy areas, in forest and shrubland.

Description

T. hygomi has an average snout-to-vent length (SVL) of .

Behavior

T. hygomi is terrestrial and diurnal.

Diet

T. hygomi preys predominately upon ants, beetles, and termites, but also eats larvae and adults of other insects, spiders, wood lice, centipedes, and millipedes.

Reproduction

T. hygomi is oviparous.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. Iguanidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I–XXIV. (Tropidurus hygomi, p. 177).
• Caldas, Francis; Santos, Rafael; Santana, Daniel; Faria, Renato (2021). "Filling some of the gap of ecological informations [sic] of a Brazilian Vulnerable lizard (Tropidurus hygomi) ". Cuadernos de Herpetología 35: 207–222.
• Freitas MA (2014). "Squamate reptiles of the Atlantic Forest of northern Bahia, Brazil". Check List 10 (5): 1020–1030.
• Lima, Jefferson Oliveira; Andrade, Hugo; Silva, Tainara Lima da; Dias, Eduardo José dos Reis (2022). "Reptiles of Sergipe: current knowledge and sampling discontinuities". Herpetology Notes 15: 69–78.
• Reinhardt JT, Lütken CF (1862). "Bidrag til Kundskab om Brasiliens Padder og Krybdyr. Förste Afdeling: Padderne og Öglerne". Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn 1861 (10/15): 143–242. (Tropidurus hygomi, new species, pp. 228–229). (in Danish and Latin).

Notes and References

1. [species:Bo Beolens|Beolens B]