Echinosaura
Taxonavigation
editTaxonavigation: Gymnophthalmoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota Subordo: Lacertoidea |
Familia: Gymnophthalmidae
Subfamilia: Cercosaurinae
Tribus: Cercosaurini
Genus: Echinosaura
Species (8):
E. brachycephala –
E. fischerorum –
E. horrida –
E. keyi –
E. orcesi –
E. palmeri –
E. panamensis –
E. sulcarostrum
Name
editEchinosaura Boulenger, 1890: 82
- Type species: Echinosaura horrida Boulenger, 1890, by monotypy.
Synonyms
edit- Teuchocercus Fritts & Smith, 1969: 54 [synonymized by Torres-Carvajal et al. (2016: 74), by implication]
- Type species: Teuchocercus keyi Fritts & Smith, 1969, by original designation and monotypy.
References
editPrimary references
edit- Boulenger, G.A. 1890. First report on additions to the lizard collection in the British Museum (Natural History). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1890: 77–86. BHL
- Fritts, T.H. & Smith, H.M. 1969. A new teiid lizard genus from Western Ecuador. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 72(1): 54–59. DOI: 10.2307/3627048 JSTOR Reference page.
- Torres-Carvajal, O., Lobos, S.E., Venegas, P.J., Chávez, G., Aguirre-Peñafiel, V., Zurita, D. & Echevarría, L.Y. 2016. Phylogeny and biogeography of the most diverse clade of South American gymnophthalmid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 99: 63–75. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.006 Reference page.
Additional references
edit- Fritts, T.H., Almendáriz, A. & Samec, S. 2002. A new species of Echinosaura (Gymnophthalmidae) from Ecuador and Colombia with comments on other members of the genus and Teuchocercus keyi. Journal of Herpetology 36(3): 349–355. DOI: 10.2307/1566177 JSTOR Reference page.
- Köhler, G., Böhme, W. & Schmitz, A. 2004. A new species of Echinosaura (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Ecuador. Journal of Herpetology 38(1): 52–60. DOI: 10.1670/164-02A JSTOR Reference page.
- Donnelly, M.A., MacCulloch, R.D., Ugarte, C.A. & Kizirian, D. 2006. A New Riparian Gymnophthalmid (Squamata) from Guyana. Copeia 2006(3): 396–403. DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2006)2006[396:ANRGSF]2.0.CO;2 Reference page.
- Yánez-Muñoz, M.H., Torres-Carvajal, O., Reyes-Puig, J.P., Urgilés-Merchán, M.A. & Koch, C. 2021. A new and very spiny lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Echinosaura) from the Andes in northwestern Ecuador. PeerJ 9: e12523. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12523 Reference page.
Links
edit- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Echinosaura . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 10 April 2023.
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