Echinosaura

Echinosaura palmeri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lacertoidea

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

Familia: Gymnophthalmidae
Subfamilia: Cercosaurinae
Tribus: Cercosaurini
Genus: Echinosaura
Species (8): E. brachycephala – E. fischerorum – E. horrida – E. keyi – E. orcesi – E. palmeri – E. panamensis – E. sulcarostrum

Name

Echinosaura Boulenger, 1890: 82

• Type species: Echinosaura horrida Boulenger, 1890, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Teuchocercus Fritts & Smith, 1969: 54 [synonymized by Torres-Carvajal et al. (2016: 74), by implication]
  • Type species: Teuchocercus keyi Fritts & Smith, 1969, by original designation and monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Boulenger, G.A. 1890. First report on additions to the lizard collection in the British Museum (Natural History). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1890: 77–86. BHL
• Fritts, T.H. & Smith, H.M. 1969. A new teiid lizard genus from Western Ecuador. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 72(1): 54–59. DOI: 10.2307/3627048 JSTOR 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. 

Additional references

• Fritts, T.H., Almendáriz, A. & Samec, S. 2002. A new species of Echinosaura (Gymnophthalmidae) from Ecuador and Colombia with comments on other members of the genus and Teuchocercus keyi. Journal of Herpetology 36(3): 349–355. DOI: 10.2307/1566177 JSTOR Reference page. 
• Köhler, G., Böhme, W. & Schmitz, A. 2004. A new species of Echinosaura (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Ecuador. Journal of Herpetology 38(1): 52–60. DOI: 10.1670/164-02A JSTOR Reference page. 
• Donnelly, M.A., MacCulloch, R.D., Ugarte, C.A. & Kizirian, D. 2006. A New Riparian Gymnophthalmid (Squamata) from Guyana. Copeia 2006(3): 396–403. DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2006)2006[396:ANRGSF]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 
• Yánez-Muñoz, M.H., Torres-Carvajal, O., Reyes-Puig, J.P., Urgilés-Merchán, M.A. & Koch, C. 2021. A new and very spiny lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Echinosaura) from the Andes in northwestern Ecuador. PeerJ 9: e12523. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12523 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Echinosaura . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 10 April 2023.

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