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A fim de contribuir para o aumento de informações sobre os padrões alimentares e comportamentais de Tropidurus hispidus o presente estudo relata e discute uma tentativa de consumo oportunístico de Mus musculus em uma área urbana da cidade de Parnamirim, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil.

Dryadosaura nordestina is a gymnophthalmid with distribution restricted to Atlantic Forest remnants of northeastern Brazil, from Rio Grande do Norte to Bahia states. This paper aimed to describe the incubation and hatching of eggs in laboratory and provide morphometric characterization of D. nordestina hatchlings. During a fieldwork at Serra da Jiboia, municipality of Santa Teresinha, Bahia state, we collected inside a fallen log two eggs. For the incubation, eggs were kept inside a polyethylene container lined with humus, maintained at room temperature (~25°C), and daily observed. After 13 days of incubation, the eggs hatched, and the measures of the specimens were verified. Besides the individuals from Serra da Jiboia, morphometric measures of five D. nordestina hatchlings previously deposited in the Herpetological Collection of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte were also taken. This paper confirms the clutch size of 1-2 eggs for several gymnophthalmids and it is the first record on incubation and hatchling size for D. nordestina, thus contributing to knowledge on reproductive biology of this species.

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