unknown lizard from southern bahia brazil

You have writed 3 diferent places....but probably the animal is a Tropidurus torquatus

Thank you! Corumbau is in southern Bahia - sorry for being unclear.

Brazil is an amazing country, my friend. I am happy you went to one of my favorite states: Bahia. I am from Sao Paulo though, which is also a great state =]. I hope you had fun down there, I mean...how can you not have fun in Brazil, right?
That is certainly a lizard of the tropidurus family, they don't make good pets, but they are fine feeders. When I was wee lad in Brazil I used to catch those little bastards to feed my cornsnakes....good times, good times. Now I am here freezing my cute brazilian ass in the painful Pennsylvanian winter!

PS- Hey, Bushmaster, it is actually ===> Written not writed, english has quite a few Irregular Verbs. Not much to memorize, it bothers me when people blatantly ignore them, I mean...Jeez! There are, maybe, about 50-60 common irregular verbs that you need to learn, and most of them are irregular in only one or two tenses. It is NOTHING compared to latin-rooted languages...so anyway, just freakin' learn those verbs, dude!

I'm happy with any comments I get, as long as they're legible.

Where are you in PA? Feel free to email me at billysbrown2@yahoo.com

Sorry psycho, but I never learned english...I learned almost by myself (except for some school classes LOL). I am from Brazil too, and I junt wanted be clear in my thought...
ps. Why you fed your cornsnake with collected Tropidurus? They are full of parasites....I am a biologist and a friend works with them and its commom to find about 400 nematodes in them...here in Brazil we call it "vacilo" huahua

Trust me, a bored 10-year-old boy is more interested in the thrills of watching a snake eating than the snake's health or well-being. Surprisingly my first corn snakes still alive and I suppose that they are over 15 years old now.
That is a topic which is always massively controversial, some herpetologists say that exposing animals in captivity to “dangers” or “hazards” that they would naturally find in the wild is logical and does not offer much risk, yet some specialists would use Darwinism and say that the animals in captivity were not exposed to the “hazards” well enough to build a certain tolerance. In my humble and personal opinion it is more logical to NOT expose the animal to unnecessary “dangers”
Nevertheless, I utterly agree to the stupidity of feeding collected animals to any animal, keep in mind that fortunately. for I and my reptiles. I have acquired more knowledge by now.
I am glad to see that despite the government’s foolishness regarding reptiles, the Brazilian community and market is growing. I hope that someday the Brazilian market will have the same importance as the American and European. The reptiles business is a multi-millionaire industry now, I personally do not understand the negativity and stolid ness that the Brazilian authorities have displayed regarding the legality of keeping reptiles as pets (not only reptiles but all sorts of exotics), some experts on the subject, presume that that is due to fear of breaking the monopoly of toxins in Brazil, which now-a-days is as lucrative as a gold mine. IBAMA (the institution that is responsible for the Brazilian wild life) is a broken institution, which has no knowledge-bases whatsoever and is more willing to randomly forbid than allow, in order to save the trouble of conducting a research