Oreosaurus shrevei

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: Oreosaurus
Species: Oreosaurus shrevei

Name

• Oreosaurus shrevei (Parker, 1935)

Holotype: BMNH 1946.9.4.27.

Type locality: “Heaths of Aripo Mountain Range, Trinidad”.

Combinations

• Proctoporus shrevei — Parker, 1935: 283 [original combination]
• Riama shrevei — Doan & Castoe, 2005: 409 [subsequent combination]
• Oreosaurus shrevei — Sánchez-Pacheco et al., 2018: 290 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Parker, H.W. 1935. The new teeid lizard in Trinidad. Tropical Agriculture 12: 283.
• 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. 
• 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. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Oreosaurus shrevei. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 25 June 2018.
• Murphy, J. 2016. IUCN: Riama shrevei  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T178338A71745464. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T178338A71745464.en

Vernacular names

English: Shreve's Lightbulb Lizard