“…Incubation temperature during embryonic development affects reptile hatchlings phenotypes, such as sex in those with temperature-dependent sex determination, body size, pigmentation, morphology, locomotory performance, growth, thermal preference, and survivorship (LANG, 1987;BURGER, 1991;LANG & ANDREWS, 1994;JANZEN, 1995;SHINE & HARLOW, 1996;RHEN & LANG, 1999;PIÑA et al, 2003). Some reptiles are sexually dimorphic in overall size (FITCH, 1981;SMITH et al, 1997;ANDREWS et al, 2000) or in relative size of certain body structures (DOUGHTY & SHINE, 1995;VERDADE, 2001).…”