Pholidobolus vertebralis

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

Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.31.35, collected by Clarence Buckley.

Type locality: “Intac [=Intag, Imbabura Province], Ecuador”.

Cercosaura (Pantodactylus) vertebralis O’Shaughnessy, 1879: 298 [original combination]
Prionodactylus vertebralis — Boulenger, 1885: 394 [subsequent combination]
Euspondylus vertebralis — Dunn, 1944: 103 [subsequent combination]
Cercosaura vertebralis — Doan, 2003: 110 [subsequent combination]
Pholidobolus vertebralis — Torres-Carvajal, Lobos & Venegas, 2015: 282 [subsequent combination]

O’Shaughnessy, A.W.E. 1879. Description of new species of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 5, 4(22): 295–303. DOI: 10.1080/00222937908679832 BHL Reference page.
Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume 2. Iguanidae, Xenosauridae, Zonuridae, Anguidae, Aniellidae, Helodermatidae, Varanidae, Xantusiidae, Teiidae, Amphisbaenidae. Second edition. Trustees of the British Museum: London. xiii + 497 pp., 24 pls. BHL Reference page.
Doan, T.M. 2003. A new phylogenetic classification for the gymnophthalmid genera Cercosaura, Pantodactylus and Prionodactylus (Reptilia: Squamata). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137(1): 101–115. DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00043.x Reference page.
Torres-Carvajal, O., Lobos, S.E. & Venegas, P.J. 2015. Phylogeny of Neotropical Cercosaura (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) lizards. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 93: 281–288. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.07.025 Reference page.

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Pholidobolus vertebralis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 29 June 2018.
Ibáñez, R., Jaramillo, C., Daza, J., Caicedo, J., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F., Perez, P., Schargel, W. & Rivas, G. 2017. IUCN: Pholidobolus vertebralis (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T203052A2759538. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T203052A2759538.en

English: Brown Prionodactylus
español: Lagartija minadora subtropical