Alopoglossus
Genus of lizards
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Alopoglossus vallensis | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: |
Alopoglossidae
Goicoechea , Frost , De la Riva [ fr ] , Pellegrino , Sites , Rodrigues & Padial , 2016 |
Genus: |
Alopoglossus
Boulenger , 1885 |
Species | |
32, see text. |
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Synonyms [1] | |
Ptychoglossus Boulenger, 1890 |
Alopoglossus is a genus of lizards in the monogeneric family Alopoglossidae . [1] [2] The genus is distributed from Costa Rica in Central America to northern South America . [1]
Species
The genus Alopoglossus contains the following 32 valid species: [2]
- Alopoglossus amazonius Ruthven , 1924 – Amazonanian teiid
- Alopoglossus andeanus ( Ruibal , 1952)
- Alopoglossus angulatus ( Linnaeus , 1758) – northern teiid
- Alopoglossus atriventris Duellman , 1973 – keel-bellied shade lizard
- Alopoglossus avilapiresae Ribeiro-Junior, Choueri, Lobos, Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, & Werneck, 2020
- Alopoglossus bicolor ( F. Werner , 1916) – Werner's largescale lizard
- Alopoglossus bilineatus Boulenger , 1890
- Alopoglossus brevifrontalis Boulenger, 1912 – Boulenger's largescale lizard
- Alopoglossus buckleyi ( O’Shaughnessy , 1881) – Buckley's teiid
- Alopoglossus carinicaudatus ( Cope , 1876) – northern teiid
- Alopoglossus collii Ribeiro-Junior, Choueri, Lobos, Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, & Werneck, 2020
- Alopoglossus copii Boulenger , 1885 – drab shade lizard
- Alopoglossus danieli Harris , 1994 – Daniel's largescale lizard
- Alopoglossus embera Peloso & Morales , 2017
- Alopoglossus eurylepis Harris & Rueda , 1985 – largescale lizard
- Alopoglossus festae ( Peracca , 1896)
- Alopoglossus gansorum Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck, & Meiri, 2021
- Alopoglossus gorgonae Harris, 1994
- Alopoglossus grandisquamatus Rueda, 1985 – common largescale lizard
- Alopoglossus harrisi Hernández-Morales, Sturaro, Sales-Nunes, Lotzkat, & Peloso, 2020
- Alopoglossus indigenorum Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck, & Meiri, 2021
- Alopoglossus kugleri Roux , 1927 – Kugler's largescale lizard
- Alopoglossus lehmanni Ayala & Harris , 1984
- Alopoglossus meloi Ribeiro-Júnior , 2018
- Alopoglossus myersi Harris, 1994
- Alopoglossus plicatus ( Taylor , 1949) – Taylor's largescale lizard
- Alopoglossus romaleos Harris, 1994
- Alopoglossus stenolepis (Boulenger, 1908)
- Alopoglossus tapajosensis Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck, & Meiri, 2021
- Alopoglossus theodorusi Ribeiro-Júnior, Meiri, & Fouquet, 2020
- Alopoglossus vallensis Harris, 1994
- Alopoglossus viridiceps Torres-Carvajal & Lobos , 2014 [3] – green-headed shade lizard
Nota bene : A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Alopoglossus .
References
- 1 2 3 Hernández Morales, Cristian; Sturaro, Marcelo J.; Nunes, Pedro M. Sales; Lotzkat, Sebastian & Peloso, Pedro L.V. (2020). "A species‐level total evidence phylogeny of the microteiid lizard family Alopoglossidae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea)" . Cladistics . 36 (3): 301–321. doi : 10.1111/cla.12407 . PMID 34618959 . S2CID 213010219 .
- 1 2 Alopoglossus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 31 August 2020.
- ↑ News Staff / Source (2014). "New Species of Shade Lizard Discovered in Ecuador" . at Sci-News.com.
Further reading
- Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Teiidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. ( Alopoglossus , new genus, p. 383).
Squamata
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