Ecology of two sympatric species of Neusticurus (Sauria: Gymnophthalmidae) in the Western Amazon of Brazil

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 3, 1998, Pages 570-582

  Vitt, Laurie J ^a   Avila Pires, Teresa C S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Museu Paraense Emilio G/CNPQ/MCT   (Brazil)

^c NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT USE; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; SYMPATRY;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

NEUSTICURUS; NEUSTICURUS ECPLEOPUS; NEUSTICURUS JURUAZENSIS;

EID: 0031928474     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447787     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. ANDERSON, R. A., AND L. J. VITT. 1990. Sexual selection versus alternative causes of sexual dimorphism in teiid lizards. Oecologia (Berl.) 84:145-157.
2. ANDREWS, R. M. 1985. Oviposition frequency of Anolis carolinenis. Copeia 1985:259-262.
3. AVILA-PIRES, T. C. S. 1995. Lizards of Brazilian Amazonia (Reptilia: Squamata). Zool. Verb. Leiden 299:1-706.
4. _, AND L. J. VITT. 1998. A new species of lizard of the genus Neusticurus (Reptilia: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Rio Juruá, Acre, Brazil. Herpetologica in press.
5. BEEBE, W. 1945. Field notes on the lizards of Kartabo, British Guiana, and Caripito, Venezuela. Part 3. Teiidae, Amphisbaenidae and Scincidae. Zoologica 30:7-32.
6. BRATTSTROM, B. H. 1965. Body temperature of reptiles. Am. Midl. Nat. 73:376-422.
7. BROOKS, D. R., AND D. A. MCLENNAN. 1993. Historical ecology: examining phylogenetic components of community evolution, p. 267-280. In: Species diversity in ecological communities. R. E. Ricklefs and D. Schluter (eds.). Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
8. COOPER, W. E., JR., AND L. J. VITT. 1989. Sexual dimorphism of head and body size in the iguanid lizard Sceloporus undulatus: paradoxical results. Am. Nat. 133:729-735.
9. DIXON, J. R., AND W. W. LAMAR. 1981. A new species of microteiid lizard (genus Neusticurus) from Colombia. J. Herpetol. 15:309-314.
10. _, AND P. SOINI. 1975. The reptiles of the upper Amazon basin, Iquitos region, Peru I. Lizards and Amphisbaenians. Milw. Publ. Mus. Contr. Biol. Geol. 4:1-58.
11. DONNELLY, M. A., AND C. W. MYERS. 1991. Herpetological results of the 1990 Venezuelan expedition to the summit of Cerro Guaiquinima, with new tepui reptiles. Am. Mus. Novit. 3017:1-54.
12. DUELLMAN, W. E. 1978. The biology of an equatorial herpetofauna in Amazonian Ecuador. Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kans. 65:1-352.
13. _. 1987. Lizards in an Amazonian rain forest community: resource utilization and abundance. Nat. Geogr. Soc. Res. 3:489-500.
14. FITCH, H. S. 1968. Temperature and behavior of some equatorial lizards. Herpetologica 24:35-38.
15. _. 1970. Reproductive cycles in lizards and snakes. Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kans. 52:1-247.
16. GAMES, P. A., AND. F. HOWELL. 1976. Pairwise multiple comparison procedures with unequal n's and/or variances: a Monte Carlo study. J. Educ. Stat. 1:113-125.
17. HERTZ, P. E. 1974. Thermal passivity of a tropical forest lizard, Anolis polylepis. J. Herpetol. 8:323-327.
18. _, R. B. HUEY, AND E. NEVO. 1980. Thermal dependence of defensive behavior in a lizard. Am. Zool. 20:791.
19. _, _, AND R. D. STEVENSON. 1993. Evaluating temperature regulation by field-active ectotherms: the fallacy of the inappropriate question. Am. Nat. 142:796-818.
20. HOOGMOED, M. S. 1973. Notes on the herpetofauna of Surinam. IV. The lizards and amphisbaenians of Surinam. Biogeographica 4:1-419.
21. _, AND T. C. S. AVILA-PIRES. 1989. Observations on the nocturnal activity of lizards in a marshy area in Serra do Navio, Brazil. Trop. Zool. 2:165-173.
22. HUEY, R. B., AND M. SLATKIN. 1976. Cost and benefits of lizard thermoregulation. Q. Rev. Biol. 51:363-384.
23. Losos, J. B., K. I. WARHEIT, AND T. W. SCHOENER. 1997. Adaptive differentiation following experimental island colonization in Anolis lizards. Nature 387:70-73.
24. MARITZ, M. F., AND R. M. DOUGLAS. 1994. Shape quantization and the estimation of volume and surface area of reptile eggs. J. Herpetol. 28:281-291.
25. MILES, D. B. 1994. Covariation between morphology and locomotory performance in Sceloporine lizards, p. 207-235. In: Lizard ecology: historical and experimental perspectives. L. J. Vitt and E. R. Pianka (eds.). Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.
26. MORAES, R. C. 1993. Ecologia das especies de Calyptommatus (Sauria, Gymnophthalmidae) e partilha de recursos com outros dois microteiideos. Unpubl. master's thesis, Univ. de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
27. NOBLE, G. K., AND H. T. BRADLEY. 1933. The mating behavior of lizards; its bearing on the theory of sexual selection. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 35:25-100.
28. PETERS, J. A., AND R. DONOSO-BARROS. 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part II. Lizards and Amphisbaenians. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
29. PIANKA, E. R. 1973. The structure of lizard communities. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 4:53-74.
30. _. 1986. Ecology and natural history of desert lizards. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.
31. ROCHA, C. F. D. 1991. Habitat utilization and feeding habits of Neusticurus ecpleopus in a Brazilian tropical rain forest. Herpetol. Rev. 22:40-42.
32. SHERBROOKE, W. C. 1975. Reproductive cycle of a tropical teiid lizard, Neusticurus ecpleopus Cope, in Peru. Biotropica 7:194-207.
33. VANZOLINI, P. E., AND C. M. CARVALHO. 1991. Two sibling and sympatric species of Gymnophthalmus in Roraima, Brasil (Sauria, Teiidae). Pap. Avul. Zool. (S. Paulo) 37:173-226.
34. VITT, L. J. 1996. Biodiversity of Amazonian lizards, p. 89-108. In: Neotropical biodiversity and conservation. A. C. Gibson (ed.). Mildred E. Mathias Botanic Garden Misc. Publ. no. 1. Los Angeles.
35. _, AND J. P. CALDWELL. 1994. Resource utilization and guild structure of small vertebrates in the Amazon forest leaf litter. J. Zool. Lond. 234:463-476.
36. _, AND C. M. CARVALHO. 1995. Niche partitioning in a tropical wet season: lizards in the lavrado area of northern Brazil. Copeia 1995:305-329.
37. _, AND P. A. ZANI. 1996. Organization of a taxonomically diverse lizard assemblage in Amazonian Ecuador. Can. J. Zool. 74:1313-1335.
38. VITT, L. J., J. M. HOWLAND, AND A. E. DUNHAM. 1985. The effect of formalin fixation on weight of lizard eggs. J. Herpetol. 19:298-299.