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Tropidurus hispidus (Peters' Lava Lizard)

Synonyms: Agama hispida (heterotypic); Proctotretus toelsneri; Trachycyclus superciliaris; Tropidurus torquatus hispidus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  25 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Female Weight [1]  19 grams
Male Weight [1]  31 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  63.2 %
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal, Saxicolous, Terrestrial
Litter Size [1]  6
Litters / Year [1]  3
Maximum Longevity [1]  2 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.543 inches (9 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Maracá Ecological Reserve Ia 257554 Roraima, Brazil  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No

Predators

Pseudoboa nigra (Black False Boa)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
3Reproductive biology and food habits of Pseudoboa nigra (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the Brazilian cerrado, Renata de Paula Orofino, Lígia Pizzatto and Otavio A. V. Marques, Phyllomedusa 9(1):53-61, 2010
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0