Tropidurus hygomi, also known commmonly as Reinhardt's lava lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Tropiduridae.[2] The species is native to the Northeast Region of Brazil.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Tropiduridae |
| Genus: | Tropidurus |
| Species: | T. hygomi
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| Binomial name | |
| Tropidurus hygomi J.T. Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862
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Etymology edit
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.[3]
Geographic range edit
T. hygomi is found in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Sergipe.[1][2]
Habitat edit
The preferred natural habitat of T. hygomi is sandy areas,[1][2] in forest and shrubland.[1]
Description edit
T. hygomi has an average snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 3.43 cm (1.35 in).[1]
Behavior edit
T. hygomi is terrestrial and diurnal.[1]
Diet edit
T. hygomi preys predominately upon ants, beetles, and termites, but also eats larvae and adults of other insects, spiders, wood lice, centipedes, and millipedes.[1]
Reproduction edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g Silveira, A.L.; da Rocha, C.; Nogueira, C. de C.; Werneck, F.; de Moura, G.J.B.; Winck, G.; Ribeiro Júnior, M.A.; Kiefer, M.; de Freitas, M.A.; Hoogmoed, M.S.; Tinôco, M.S.T.; Valadão, R.; Cardoso Vieira, R.; Perez Maciel, R.; Gomes Faria, R.; Recoder, R.; D'Ávila, R.; Torquato da Silva, S.; de Barcelos Ribeiro, S.; Avila-Pires, T.C.S. (2021). "Tropidurus hygomi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T49845578A49845580. Retrieved 16 December 2021. (in English and Portuguese).
- ^ a b c d Tropidurus hygomi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 April 2022.
- ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Tropidurus hygomi, p. 128).
Further reading edit
- 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).
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