Alopoglossus

Alopoglossus
Alopoglossus vallensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Superfamily:	Gymnophthalmoidea
Family:	Alopoglossidae Goicoechea et al., 2016 [1]
Genus:	Alopoglossus Boulenger, 1885
Species
32, see text.
Synonyms [2]
Ptychoglossus Boulenger, 1890

Alopoglossus is a genus of lizards in the monogeneric family Alopoglossidae. ^{[2] [3]} The genus is distributed from Costa Rica in Central America to northern South America. ^[2]

Species

The genus Alopoglossus contains the following 32 valid species: ^[3]

• Alopoglossus amazonius Ruthven, 1924 – Amazonanian teiid
• Alopoglossus andeanus (Ruibal, 1952)
• Alopoglossus angulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) – northern teiid
• Alopoglossus atriventris Duellman, 1973 – keel-bellied shade lizard
• Alopoglossus avilapiresae Ribeiro-Júnior, Choueri, Lobos, Venegas, Torres-Carvajal & Werneck, 2020
• Alopoglossus bicolor (F. Werner, 1916) – Werner's largescale lizard
• Alopoglossus bilineatus Boulenger, 1890
• Alopoglossus brevifrontalis Boulenger, 1912 – Boulenger's largescale lizard
• Alopoglossus buckleyi (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) – Buckley's teiid
• Alopoglossus carinicaudatus (Cope, 1876) – northern teiid
• Alopoglossus collii Ribeiro-Júnior, Choueri, Lobos, Venegas, Torres-Carvajal & Werneck, 2020
• Alopoglossus copii Boulenger, 1885 – drab shade lizard
• Alopoglossus danieli Harris, 1994 – Daniel's largescale lizard
• Alopoglossus embera Peloso & Morales, 2017
• Alopoglossus eurylepis Harris & Rueda, 1985 – largescale lizard
• Alopoglossus festae (Peracca, 1896)
• Alopoglossus gansorum Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck & Meiri, 2021
• Alopoglossus gorgonae Harris, 1994
• Alopoglossus grandisquamatus Rueda, 1985 – common largescale lizard
• Alopoglossus harrisi Hernández-Morales, Sturaro, Sales-Nunes, Lotzkat & Peloso, 2020
• Alopoglossus indigenorum Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck & Meiri, 2021
• Alopoglossus kugleri Roux, 1927 – Kugler's largescale lizard
• Alopoglossus lehmanni Ayala & Harris, 1984
• Alopoglossus meloi Ribeiro-Júnior, 2018
• Alopoglossus myersi Harris, 1994
• Alopoglossus plicatus (Taylor, 1949) – Taylor's largescale lizard
• Alopoglossus romaleos Harris, 1994
• Alopoglossus stenolepis (Boulenger, 1908)
• Alopoglossus tapajosensis Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck & Meiri, 2021
• Alopoglossus theodorusi Ribeiro-Júnior, Meiri & Fouquet, 2020
• Alopoglossus vallensis Harris, 1994
• Alopoglossus viridiceps Torres-Carvajal & Lobos, 2014 ^[4] – green-headed shade lizard

Nota bene : A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Alopoglossus.

References

1. Goicoechea, Noemí; Frost, Darrel R.; De la Riva, Ignacio; Pellegrino, Katia C.M.; Sites, Jack Jr; Rodrigues, Miguel T.; Padial, José M. (2016). "Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment". Cladistics. 32 (6): 624–671. doi:10.1111/cla.12150. ISSN   1096-0031.
2. Hernández Morales, Cristian; Sturaro, Marcelo J.; Nunes, Pedro M. Sales; Lotzkat, Sebastian; Peloso, Pedro L.V. (2020). "A species-level total evidence phylogeny of the microteiid lizard family Alopoglossidae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea)". Cladistics. 36 (3): 301–321. doi: 10.1111/cla.12407 . PMID   34618959. S2CID   213010219.
3. Alopoglossus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 August 2020.
4. News Staff / Source (2014). "New Species of Shade Lizard Discovered in Ecuador". at Sci-News.com.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Teiidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I–XXIV. (Alopoglossus, new genus, p. 383).