Leposoma
Leposoma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Gymnophthalmidae |
Tribe: | |
Genus: | Leposoma Spix, 1825[1] |
Leposoma is a genus of South American lizards in the family Gymnophthalmidae.[2]
Species[]
The following six species are recognized as being valid:[2]
- Leposoma annectans , 1952
- Leposoma baturitensis Rodrigues & , 1997
- Leposoma nanodactylus Rodrigues, 1997
- Leposoma puk Rodrigues et al., 2002
- Leposoma scincoides Spix, 1825 - skink tegu
- Leposoma sinepollex Rodrigues et al., 2013
References[]
- ^ "Leposoma". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ a b Leposoma at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 9 July 2013.
Further reading[]
- Spix JB (1825). Animalia nova sive species novae lacertarum, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII – MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Miximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae Regis suscepto collegit et descripsit. Munich: F.S. Hübschmann. Index (four unnumbered pages) + 26 pp. + 30 color plates. (Leposoma, new genus, p. 24). (in Latin).
Categories:
- Leposoma
- Reptiles of South America
- Lizard genera
- Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix
- Lizard stubs