Abstract
Although most of the state of Rondonia in western Brazil was recently covered by tropical forest, patches of two types of dry land habitats also are found and contain lizard species atypical of tropical forest. Anolis meridionalis, Micrablepharus maximiliani, Cnemidophorus sp., and Kentropyx vanzoi occurred in a typical cerrado grassland area in extreme southern Rondonia. Termite nests and armadillo burrows provide refuge for these cerrado lizards during widespread grass fires. Three morphotypes of at least two undescribed species of Tropidurus occurred on isolated granitic extrusions completely surrounded by tropical forest. Hoplocercus spinosus occurred on one of the extrusions. These islands of xeric habitat are not used by tropical forest species
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