Tropidurus helenae

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author1=Colli, G.R. |author1-link=species:Gauarino Rinaldi Colli |author2=Fenker, J. |author2-link=species:Jéssica Fenker |author3=Tedeschi, L. |author3-link=species:Leonardo G. Tedeschi |author4=Bataus, Y.S.L. |author4-link=species:Yeda S. de L. Bataus |author5=Uhlig, V.M. |author5-link=species:Viktor Uhlig |author6=Lima, A. |author7=Nogueira, C. de C. |author7-link=species:Cristiano de Campos Nogueira |author8=Borges-Nojosa, D.M. |author8-link=species:Diva Maria Borges-Nojosa |author9=Costa, G.C. |author9-link=species:Gabriel Correira Costa |author10=de Moura, G.J.B. |author10-link=species:Geraldo Jorge Barbosa de Moura |author11=Winck, G. |author11-link=species:Gisele R. Winck |author12=Silva, J.R.S. |author13=Viñas, L.V. |author13-link=species:Laura Verrastro Viñas |author14=Ribeiro Júnior, M.A. |author14-link=species:Marco Antônio Ribeiro-Júnior |author15=Hoogmoed, M.S. |author15-link=species:Marinus Steven Hoogmoed |author16=Tinôco, M.S.T. |author16-link=species:Moacir Santos Tinôco |author17=Almeida-Santos, P. |author17-link=species:Patrícia Almeida dos Santos |author18=Valadão, R. |author18-link=species:Rafael Martins Valadão |author19=de Oliveira, R.B. |author20=Avila-Pires, T.C.S. |author20-link=species:Teresa Cristina Sauer de Ávila-Pires |author21=Ferreira, V.L. |author22=de Menezes, V.A. |author22-link=species:Vanderlaine Amaral de Menezes |date=2021 |title=Tropidurus helenae |volume=2021|page=e.T49845566A159255198 |url= https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/49845566/159255198|access-date=16 December 2021}} (in Portuguese).

| genus = Tropidurus

| species = helenae

| authority = (Manzani & Abe, 1990)

| synonyms = *Tapinurus helenae
{{small|Manzani & Abe, 1990}}

Tropidurus helenae
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Tropidurus helenae is a species of lizard in the family Tropiduridae.{{NRDB species|genus=Tropidurus|species=helenae|access-date=5 April 2022}} The species is native to northeastern Brazil.

Etymology

The specific name, helenae, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Helena Ribas Lopes.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 helenae, p. 120).

Geographic range

T. helenae is endemic to the Brazilian state of Piauí.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of T. helenae is savanna.

Description

The holotype of T. helenae has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of {{cvt|7.0|cm|in}}, plus a tail length of {{cvt|12.2|cm|in}}.

Behavior

T. helenae is terrestrial, diurnal, and saxicolous (rock-dwelling).

Diet

T. helenae preys upon termites.

Reproduction

T. helenae is oviparous.