Hoplocercidae
Hoplocercidae | |
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Enyalioides binzayedi | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Iguania |
Clade: | Pleurodonta |
Family: | Hoplocercidae Frost & , 1989 |
Genera | |
3 genera (19 recognized species), see article. |
Hoplocercidae are a family of lizards native to the tropical forests, woodlands and savanna-like habitats of Central and South America.[1][2][3] Alternatively they are recognized as a subfamily, Hoplocercinae. Nineteen species in three genera are described.
Species[]
Family: Hoplocercidae
- Genus Enyalioides
- Enyalioides altotambo , , & de Queiroz, 2015 – Alto Tambo woodlizard
- Enyalioides anisolepis , , & de Queiroz, 2015 – rough-scaled woodlizard
- Enyalioides azulae , , , & de Queiroz, 2013
- Enyalioides binzayedi , , , & de Queiroz, 2013
- Enyalioides cofanorum , 1973 – Cofan woodlizard, Duellman's dwarf iguana
- Enyalioides heterolepis (Bocourt, 1874) – Bocourt's dwarf iguana
- Enyalioides laticeps (Guichenot, 1855) – broad-headed woodlizard, Guichenot's dwarf iguana
- Enyalioides microlepis (O'Shaughnessy, 1881) – small-scaled woodlizard, tiny-scale dwarf iguana
- Enyalioides oshaughnessyi (Boulenger, 1881) – red-eyed woodlizard, O'Shaughnessy's dwarf iguana
- Enyalioides palpebralis (Boulenger, 1883) – horned woodlizard, Boulenger's dwarf iguana
- Enyalioides praestabilis (O'Shaughnessy, 1881) – blue-spotted woodlizard
- Enyalioides rubrigularis , de Queiroz, & Etheridge, 2009 – red-throated woodlizard
- Enyalioides rudolfarndti , , , & Lujan, 2011
- Enyalioides sophiarothschildae , , & de Queiroz, 2015 – Rothschild’s woodlizard
- Enyalioides touzeti , , Valencia, Yúnez-Muñoz, & Reyes, 2008 – Touzet’s woodlizard
- Genus Hoplocercus
- Hoplocercus spinosus Fitzinger, 1843 – spiny weapontail
- Genus Morunasaurus
- Morunasaurus annularis (O'Shaughnessy, 1881) – ringed manticore, ringed spinytail iguana
- Morunasaurus groi Dunn, 1933 – Gro’s manticore, Dunn's spinytail iguana
- Morunasaurus peruvianus Köhler, 2003 – Cenepa manticore
References[]
- ^ Townsend; Mulcahy; Noonan; Sites Jr; Kuczynski; Wiens; Reeder (2011). "Phylogeny of iguanian lizards inferred from 29 nuclear loci, and a comparison of concatenated and species-tree approaches for an ancient, rapid radiation". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 61 (2): 363–380. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.07.008. PMID 21787873.
- ^ Wiens; Hutter; Mulcahy; Noonan; Townsend; Sites Jr.; Reeder (2012). "Resolving the phylogeny of lizards and snakes (Squamata) with extensive sampling of genes and species". Biology Letters. 8 (6): 1043–1046. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2012.0703. PMC 3497141. PMID 22993238.
- ^ Pyron; Burbrink; Wiens (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13: 93. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93. PMC 3682911. PMID 23627680.
- Frost, D.E. & Etheridge, R.E. 1989. A Phylogenetic Analysis and Taxonomy of Iguanian Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Misc. Publ. 81.
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Further reading[]
- Torres-Carvajal O, Etheridge R, de Queiroz K (2011). "A systematic revision of Neotropical lizards in the clade Hoplocercinae (Squamata: Iguania)". Zootaxa. 2752: 1–44. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2752.1.1.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Categories:
- Hoplocercidae
- Lizard families
- Lizards of Central America
- Lizards of South America
- Taxa named by Darrel Frost
- Lizard stubs