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Genus of lizards
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
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).
Alopoglossus Ptychoglossus