Loxopholis ferreirai

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: Ecpleopodini
Genus: Loxopholis
Species: Loxopholis ferreirai

Name

• Loxopholis ferreirai (Rodrigues & Ávila-Pires, 2005)

Holotype: MZUSP 57312, adult ♂.

Type locality: “Lago do Prato (0247'S, 60º48'W), Arquipélago das Anavilhanas, Rio Negro: state of Amazonas: Brazil.”

Combinations

• Leposoma ferreirai Rodrigues & Ávila Pires, 2005: 542 [original combination]
• Loxopholis ferreirai — Goicoechea et al. 2016: [name combination]

References

Primary references

• Rodrigues, M.T. & Ávila-Pires, T.C.S. 2005. New lizard of the genus Leposoma (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from the lower Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil. Journal of Herpetology 39(4): 541–546. DOI: 10.1670/240-04A.1 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. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Loxopholis ferreirai. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 27 December 2017.