Communal nesting and clutch characterization of Lygodactylus klugei (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Brazilian semiarid region

Abstract

Communal nesting is a reproductive tactic used by many lizards (Graves and Duval 1995, Carvajal-Ocampo et al. 2019). It refers to egg a in b different conspecifics or b different species in a single shared nest (Espinoza and Lobo 1996). Of the different hypotheses explaining this behavior, avoidance of predation (Somaweera 2009) and the shortage of suitable