Echinosaura
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Echinosaura | |
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Echinosaura palmeri | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Gymnophthalmidae |
Tribe: | |
Genus: | Echinosaura Boulenger, 1890 |
Species | |
7, see text. |
Echinosaura is a genus of lizards, called commonly the spined tegus, in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The genus is endemic to Central America and South America.
Geographic range and habitat[]
Species of Echinosaura occur in tropical rainforests of Panama and South America.
Description[]
Spined tegu lizards are normally brown in color and have spines on the head, torso, and tail.
Species[]
7 species are recognised:[1]
- Echinosaura brachycephala G. Köhler, Böhme & Schmitz, 2004
- Echinosaura centralis Dunn, 1944
- Echinosaura horrida Boulenger, 1890 - rough teiid
- Echinosaura keyi & H.M. Smith, 1969 - Key tegu
- Echinosaura orcesi Fritts, & , 2002
- Echinosaura palmeri Boulenger, 1911 - Palmer's teiid
- Echinosaura panamensis Barbour, 1924 - Panama teiid
Notes[]
- ^ "Echinosaura ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading[]
- Boulenger GA (1890). "First Report on Additions to the Lizard Collection in the British Museum (Natural History)". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1890: 77-86 + Plates VIII-XI. (Echinosaura, new genus, pp. 82–83; E. horrida, new species, p. 83 + Plate X, figures 1, 1a, 1b).
Categories:
- Echinosaura
- Reptiles of South America
- Lizard genera
- Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
- Lizard stubs