Euspondylus
| Euspondylus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Sauria or Lacertilia |
| Infraorder: | Scincomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Lacertoidea |
| Family: | Gymnophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Euspondylus Tschudi, 1845 [1] |
Euspondylus is a genus of gymnophthalmid lizards endemic to northern South America.[2]
Species
The following 13 species are recognized as being valid.[2]
- Euspondylus acutirostris (W. Peters, 1863)
- Euspondylus auyanensis Myers, G. Rivas & Jadin, 2009
- Euspondylus caideni G. Köhler, 2003
- Euspondylus guentheri (O'Shaughnessy, 1881)
- Euspondylus josyi G. Köhler, 2003
- Euspondylus maculatus Tschudi, 1845
- Euspondylus monsfumus Mijares-Urrutia, Señaris & Arends, 2001
- Euspondylus nellycarillae G. Köhler & Lehr, 2004
- Euspondylus oreades Chávez, Siu-Ting, Duran & Venegas, 2011
- Euspondylus paxcorpus Doan & Adams, 2015[3]
- Euspondylus rahmi (de Grijs, 1936) (= Proctoporus rahmi )
- Euspondylus simonsii Boulenger, 1901
- Euspondylus spinalis (Boulenger, 1911) (= Proctoporus spinalis)
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Euspondylus.
References
- ↑ Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gymnophthalmidae.
- 1 2 The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ Doan TM, Adams G (2015). "A novel species of Euspondylus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Andes Mountains of central Peru". Zootaxa 4033 (1): 129-136. (Euspodylus paxcorpus, new species).
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. (Genus Euspondylus, p. 404).
- Tschudi JJ. 1845. "Reptilium conspectus quae in Republica Peruana reperiuntur et pleraque observata vel collecta sunt in itenere ". Archiv für Naturgeschichte 11 (1): 150-170. (Euspondylus, new genus, pp. 160–161). (in Latin).
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