Rhachisaurus brachylepis

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: Rhachisaurinae
Genus: Rhachisaurus
Species: Rhachisaurus brachylepis

Name

Rhachisaurus brachylepis (Dixon, 1974)

• Holotype: MCZ 133174, adult ♀, collected by Otavio Froehlich on January 1973.
• Type locality: “Sierra do Cipo, Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil”.

Combinations

• Anotosaura brachylepis Dixon, 1974: 17 [original combination]
• Rhachisaurus brachylepis — Pellegrino, Rodrigues, Yonenaga-Yassuda & Sites Jr., 2001: 330 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Dixon, J.R. 1974. Systematic Review of the Lizard Genus Anotosaura (Teiidae). Herpetologica 30(1): 13–18. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Pellegrino, K.C.M., Rodrigues, M.T., Yonenaga-Yassuda, Y. & Sites Jr., J.W. 2001. A molecular perspective on the evolution of South American microteiid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae), and a new classification for the family. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 74(3): 315–338. DOI: 10.1006/bijl.2001.0580 Reference page. 

Links

• Silveira, A.L., da Rocha, C., Nogueira, C. de C., Werneck, F., de Moura, G.J.B., Winck, G., Ribeiro Júnior, M.A., Kiefer, M., de Freitas, M.A., Hoogmoed, M.S., Tinôco, M.S.T., Valadão, R., Cardoso Vieira, R., Perez Maciel, R., Gomes Faria, R., Recoder, R., D'Ávila, R., Torquato da Silva, S., de Barcelos Ribeiro, S. & Avila-Pires, T.C.S. 2021. IUCN: Rhachisaurus brachylepis  (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T137792781A137792817. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T137792781A137792817.pt. Accessed on 24 January 2024.

Vernacular names

English: Dixon's Anotosaura