Alopoglossus

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Alopoglossus
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Alopoglossus vallensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Superfamily: Lacertoidea
(unranked): Gymnophthalmoidea
Family: Alopoglossidae
Goicoechea, Frost, De la Riva  [ fr ], Pellegrino, Sites, Rodrigues & Padial, 2016
Genus: Alopoglossus
Boulenger, 1885
Species

32, see text.

Synonyms [1]

PtychoglossusBoulenger, 1890

Alopoglossus is a genus of lizards in the monogeneric family Alopoglossidae. [1] [2] The genus is distributed from Costa Rica in Central America to northern South America. [1]

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Species

The genus Alopoglossus contains the following 32 valid species: [2]

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

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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.
  2. 1 2 Alopoglossus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 August 2020.
  3. News Staff / Source (2014). "New Species of Shade Lizard Discovered in Ecuador". at Sci-News.com.

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