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| Alopoglossus | |
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| Alopoglossus vallensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Superfamily: | Lacertoidea |
| (unranked): | Gymnophthalmoidea |
| Family: | Alopoglossidae Goicoechea, Frost, De la Riva, Pellegrino, Sites, Rodrigues & Padial, 2016 |
| Genus: | Alopoglossus Boulenger, 1885 |
| Species | |
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32, see text. | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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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
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ a b 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).
