Microlophus

Microlophus peruvianus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pleurodonta

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 Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Iguania Infraordo: Pleurodonta

Familia: Tropiduridae
Genus: Microlophus
Species (24): M. albemarlensis – M. arenarius – M. atacamensis – M. barringtonensis – M. bivittatus – M. delanonis – M. duncanensis – M. grayii – M. habelii – M. heterolepis – M. indefatigabilis – M. jacobii – M. koepckeorum – M. occipitalis – M. pacificus – M. peruvianus – M. quadrivittatus – M. slevini – M. tarapacensis – M. theresiae – M. theresioides – M. thoracicus – M. tigris – M. yanezi

Name

Microlophus Duméril & Bibron, 1837: 334

• Type species: Microlophus lessoni Duméril & Bibron, 1837, by monotypy.
• Gender: masculine.
• Etymology: Greek μικρος mikros “small”; λοφος lophos “crest”.

Synonyms

• Plesiomicrolophus Frost, 1992: 44 [synonymised by Harvey & Gutberlet (2000: 216)]
  • Type species: Tropidurus occipitalis koepckeorum Mertens, 1956, by original designation and monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1837. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Tome Quatrième (In French). Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: Paris. ii + 572 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Frost, D.R. 1992. Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of the Tropidurus group of lizards (Iguania: Tropiduridae). American Museum Novitates 3033: 68 pp. hdl: 2246/4997 Reference page. 
• Harvey, M.B. & Gutberlet, R.L. 2000. A phylogenetic analysis of the tropidurine lizards (Squamata: Tropiduridae), including new characters of squamation and epidermal microstructure. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 128(2): 189–233. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00161.x Reference page. 

Additional references

• Mertens, R. 1956. Studien über die Herpetofauna Peru I. Zur Kenntniss der Iguaniden-Gattung Tropidurus in Peru. Senckenbergiana biologica 37: 101–136. Reference page. 
• Dixon, J.R. & Wright, J.W. 1975. A review of the lizards of the iguanid genus Tropidurus in Peru. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 271: 1–39. BHL Reference page. 
• López, T.J., Hauselman, E.D., Maxson, L.R. & Wright, J.W. 1992. Preliminary analysis of phylogenetic relationships among Galapagos Island lizards of the genus Tropidurus. Amphibia-Reptilia 13(4): 327–339. DOI: 10.1163/156853892X00030 Reference page. 
• Frost, D.R., Rodrigues, M.T., Grant, T. & Titus, T.A. 2001. Phylogenetics of the Lizard Genus Tropidurus (Squamata: Tropiduridae: Tropidurinae): Direct Optimization, Descriptive Efficiency, and Sensitivity Analysis of Congruence Between Molecular Data and Morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 21(3): 352–371. DOI: 10.1006/mpev.2001.1015 ; PDF Reference page. 
• Kizirian, D., Trager, A., Donnelly, M.A. & Wright, J.W. 2004. Evolution of Galapagos Island lava lizards (Iguania: Tropiduridae: Microlophus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32(3): 761–769. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.04.004 Reference page. 
• Benavides, E., Baum, R., McClellan, D. & Sites, Jr., J.W. 2007. Molecular phylogenetics of the lizard genus Microlophus (Squamata: Tropiduridae): Aligning and retrieving indel signal from nuclear introns. Systematic Biology 56(5): 776–797. DOI: 10.1080/10635150701618527 Reference page. 
• Benavides, E., Baum, R., Snell, H.M., Snell, H.L. & Sites, Jr., J.W. 2009. Island biogeography of Galapagos Lava Lizards (Tropiduridae: Microlophus): species diversity and colonization of the archipelago. Evolution 63(6): 1606–1626. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00617.x Reference page. 
• Torres-Carvajal, O. 2024. A new species of lava lizard (Iguanidae: Tropidurinae: Microlophus) from the Galápagos. Zootaxa 5428(1): 58–74. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5428.1.2 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Microlophus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 15 April 2024.

Vernacular names

English: Pacific Iguanas/Lava Lizards
español: Largatijas peruanas