title: Rediscovery of the earless microteiid lizard Anotosaura collaris Amaral, 1933 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae): a redescription complemented by osteological, hemipenial, molecular, karyological, physiological and ecological data.
abstract: More than a century after its discovery by Ernest Garbe, and almost 80 years after its original description, we obtained a series of specimens of the earless gymnophthalmid Anotosaura collaris, the type species of the genus, up to now known only by a single specimen. On the basis of the material obtained at and close to the type locality we redescribe the species, adding information about the external and hemipenial morphology, osteology and karytoype. Molecular data confirm its sister relationship with Anotosaura vanzolinia as well as the close relationship of Anotosaura with the Ecpleopodini Colobosauroides and Dryadosaura. We supplement this information with thermophysiological, ecogeographical, karyotypic and ecological data.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Email: mturodri@usp.br.
authors.forename: Miguel Trefaut
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Teixeira
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Francisco Dal
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Vechio
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Renata Cecília
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Amaro
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Carolina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nisa
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Agustín Camacho
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Guerrero
authors.affiliation: University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, USA; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Roberta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Damasceno
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Juliana Gusson
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Roscito
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Pedro M Sales
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Nunes
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Renato Sousa
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Recoder
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D008116:Lizards / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D013045:Species Specificity