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Alopoglossus

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Alopoglossus

Alopoglossus vallensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Superfamily:	Lacertoidea
(unranked):	Gymnophthalmoidea
Family:	Alopoglossidae Goicoechea, Frost, De la Riva [fr], Pellegrino, Sites, Rodrigues & Padial, 2016
Genus:	Alopoglossus Boulenger, 1885
Species
32, see text.
Synonyms^[1]
Ptychoglossus Boulenger, 1890

Alopoglossus is a genusoflizards in the monogeneric family Alopoglossidae.^[1]^[2] The genus is distributed from Costa Rica in Central America to northern South America.^[1]

Species[edit]

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[edit]

^ ^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[edit]

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).