Cercosaurini

Potamites strangulatus strangulatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gymnophthalmoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea Superfamilia: Gymnophthalmoidea

Familia: Gymnophthalmidae
Subfamilia: Cercosaurinae
Tribus: Cercosaurini
Genera (18): Anadia – Andinosaura – Cercosaura – Echinosaura – Euspondylus – Gelanesaurus – Kataphraktosaurus – Macropholidus – Neusticurus – Oreosaurus – Petracola – Pholidobolus – Placosoma – Potamites – Proctoporus – Riama – Selvasaura – Wilsonosaura

Name

Cercosaurini Gray, 1838: 391

• Type genus: Cercosaura Wagler, 1830, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E.. 1838. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Annals of Natural History 1: 388–394. BHL

Additional references

• Doan, T.M. & Castoe, T.A. 2005. Phylogenetic taxonomy of the Cercosaurini (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), with new genera for species of Neusticurus and Proctoporus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143(3): 405–416. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00145.x Reference page. 
• Goicoechea, N., Frost, D.R., De la Riva, I.J., Pellegrino, K.C.M., Sites Jr., J.W., Rodrigues, M.T. & Padial, J.M. 2016. Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment. Cladistics 32(6): 624–671. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12150 Reference page. 
• Torres-Carvajal, O., Lobos, S.E., Venegas, P.J., Chávez, G., Aguirre-Peñafiel, V., Zurita, D. & Echevarría, L.Y. 2016. Phylogeny and biogeography of the most diverse clade of South American gymnophthalmid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 99: 63–75. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.006 Reference page. 
• Sánchez-Pacheco, S.J., Torres-Carvajal, O., Aguirre-Peñafiel, V., Nunes, P.M.S., Verrastro, L., Rivas, G.A., Rodrigues, M.T., Grant, T. & Murphy, R.W. 2018. Phylogeny of Riama (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), impact of phenotypic evidence on molecular datasets, and the origin of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta endemic fauna. Cladistics 34(3): 260–291. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12203 Reference page. 
• Moravec, J., Šmíd, J., Štundl, J. & Lehr, E. 2018. Systematics of Neotropical microteiid lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae), with the description of a new genus and species from the Andean montane forests. ZooKeys 774: 105–139. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.774.25332 Reference page. 
• Lehr, E., Moravec, J. & von May, R. 2020. A new cryptic genus of terrestrial lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae) from the eastern Andes of central Peru. Salamandra 56(1): 1–15. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M., C.L. Barrio-Amorós, J.C. Señaris, I. De la Riva & S. Castroviejo-Fisher. 2021. Discovery of an additional piece of the large gymnophthalmid puzzle: a new genus and species of stream spiny lizard (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae) from Venezuelan Guiana Shield. Zootaxa, 4950(2): 296–320. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4950.2.4