Acratosaura spinosa Rodrigues, Cassimiro, Freitas & Silva, 2009

Figs 4.2 and 14

Type locality.

Caraíbas Farm, municipality of Mucugê, Serra do Sincorá, Serra do Espinhaço, state of Bahia, Brazil.

Distribution.

Caatinga endemic species. It is recorded only in the state of Bahia. It shows restricted distribution in the Caatinga and occurs along one ecoregion (Table 1; Appendix S3). Distributed in high elevation areas (1,025-1,176 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 19 to 20°C, and average annual rainfall between 917 and 996 mm.

Ecological notes.

Fossorial and diurnal (Rodrigues et al. 2009a). It was observed under rocks and on a road in a disturbed area of rupestrian fields of the Diamantina Plateau (Rodrigues et al. 2009a). Diet based mainly on arthropods, no information about the preferred items on the diet of this species is known. Oviparous, no detailed data is known about the number of eggs laid by the species, but it could be similar to others of the Iphisiini tribe (Mesquita and Colli 2010; Costa 2015).