Cercosaura parkeri

Cercosaura parkeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gymnophthalmidae
Genus:	Cercosaura
Species:	C. parkeri
Binomial name
	Cercosaura parkeri; (, 1952)
Synonyms
	Pantodactylus schreibersii parkeri ; Ruibal, 1952; Pantodactylus parkeri ; — & Cei, 1999; Cercosaura parkeri ; — , 2003;

Cercosaura parkeri, known commonly as Parker's many-fingered teiid , is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The species is endemic to South America.

Etymology[]

The specific name, parkeri, is in honor of English herpetologist Hampton Wildman Parker.^[2]

C. parkeri is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru.^[1]

C. parkeri is oviparous.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c Cercosaura parkeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 21 July 2019.. www.reptile-database.org.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cercosaura parkeri, p. 200).

Bernarde, Paulo Sérgio; Mota da Silva, Ageane; Recoder, Renato (2016). "Predation on the lizard Pantodactylus parkeri Ruibal, 1952 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) by Guira guira (Aves, Cuculidae) in the Pantanal at Pocone, Western Brazil". Herpetology Notes 9: 279–281.
Doan, Tiffany 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. (Cercosaura parkeri, new combination).
Ruibal, Rodolfo (1952). "Revisionary Studies of Some South American Teiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 106 (11): 475–529. (Pantodactylus schreibersii parkeri, new subspecies, pp. 518–520).
, Cei JM (1999). "Remarks on the Taxonomic status of the Argentine subspecies of Pantodactylus schreibersii (Wiegmann, 1834) (Gymnophthalmidae, Scleroglossa, Squamata)". Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino 16: 309–320. (Pantodactylus parkeri, new status).

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