Marcélia Basto da Silva, Geraldo Rodrigues de Lima-Filho, Áurea Aguiar Cronemberger, Leonardo Sousa Carvalho, Paulo Roberto Manzani, Jânia Brito Vieira
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Figure 2.Known localities for Tupinambis quadrilineatus in Brazil. Distrito Federal (DF): Brasília, Gama (1). Goiás (GO): Iaciara (2) Minaçu (3) Mara Rosa (4) Santa Terezinha de Goiás (5) Pirenópolis (6) Aragarças (7) Baliza (8). Maranhão (MA): Balsas (9) São Raimundo das Mangabeiras (10). Mato Grosso (MT): Primavera do Leste (11) Chapada dos Guimarães (12) Rosário Oeste (13) Cáceres (14). Minas Gerais (MG): Chapada Gaúcha (15) João Pinheiro (16). Piauí (PI): Guadalupe (17) Lagoa Alegre (18) Altos (19) Monsenhor Gil (20) Amarante (21), Ribeiro Gonçalves (22) Uruçuí (23). Pará (PA): Santa Maria das Barreiras and Redenção (24). Tocantins (TO): Gurupi (25) Mateiros (26). The localities recorded in the present study are represented by red squares. The type-locality of Tupinambis quadrilineatus is shown as an asterisk, the type-locality of its junior-synonym (Tupinambis cerradensis) is shown as a star and remaining records from the literature are shown as blue circles (Manzani and Abe 1997; Colli et al. 1998; Guimarães et al. 2007; Silva Jr. et al. 2005; Vitt et al. 2005; Mesquita et al. 2006; Recoder and Nogueira 2007; Ferreira et al. 2009; Silveira 2009; Recoder et al. 2011; Dal Vechio et al. 2013). The Cerrado savanna biome is highlighted in gray.
Marcélia Basto da Silva, Geraldo Rodrigues de Lima-Filho, Áurea Aguiar Cronemberger, Leonardo Sousa Carvalho, Paulo Roberto Manzani, Jânia Brito Vieira
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Figure 3.Adult male Tupinambis quadrilineatus. A specimen collected in the Palmares National Forest, Altos, Piauí (CHNUFPI 0036; Scale 5cm) B specimen collected with pit-fall traps at Guadalupe, Piauí (CHNUFPI 0038) C lateral view of the head and D dorsal view of the anterior region of the body (CHNUFPI 0036).
The Giant Ameiva is known in Spanish as Borriguero, and is found in Central and South America. It is also known as the Green Ameiva due to the color of the males. Photo from Summit Park in the Canal Zone of Panama.
A female Amazon Racer or Giant Ameiva suns itself on a sidewalk near Leticia, Colombia. These are found though much of tropical South America. Note the long toes. In context at www.dixpix.ca/Amazon/fauna/snakes/index.html