Alopoglossus atriventris

Alopoglossus atriventris
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Alopoglossidae
Genus:	Alopoglossus
Species:	A. atriventris
Binomial name
Alopoglossus atriventris Duellman, 1973

Alopoglossus atriventris, known commonly as the keel-bellied shade lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is endemic to northwestern South America.

Etymology

The specific name, atriventris, is from Latin ater (black) + venter (belly), ^[2] referring to the black belly of the male. ^[3]

Geographic range

A. atriventris is found in Brazil (Acre, western Amazonas), Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. ^[4]

Habitat

The natural habitat of A. atriventris is lowland tropical forest ^[4] at altitudes of 130–1,500 m (430–4,920 ft), ^[1] where it lives in the leaf litter of the forest floor. ^[4]

Reproduction

A. atriventris is oviparous. ^[4]

References

1. Calderón M, Perez P, Avila-Pires TCS, Aparicio J, Moravec J (2019). "Alopoglossus atriventris ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T44578076A44578081. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T44578076A44578081.en. Downloaded on 04 October 2019.
2. Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press. 1,055 pp. (in two volumes). ("English equivalents of Latin names", p. 3).
3. Duellman (1973).
4. Alopoglossus atriventris at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 5 July 2019.

Further reading

• Duellman WE (1973). "Descriptions of New Lizards from the Upper Amazon Basin". Herpetologica29 (3): 228–231. (Alopoglossus ariventris, new species, p. 228).
• Köhler G, Diethert H-H, Veselý M (2012). "A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Lizard Genus Alopoglossus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)". Herpetological Monographs26 (1): 173–188.
• Ribeiro-Júnior MA (2018). "A new species of Alopoglossus lizard (Squamata, Alopoglossidae) from the Southern Guiana Shield, northeastern Amazonia, with remarks on diagnostic characters to the genus". Zootaxa4422 (1): 025–040.
• Ribeiro-Júnior MA, Amaral S (2017). "Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. 4. Alopoglossidae, Gymnophthalmidae". Zootaxa4269 (2): 151–196.
• Vitt LJ, Ávila-Pires TCS, Espósito MC, Sartorius SS, Zani PA (2007). "Ecology of Alopoglossus angulatus and A. atriventris (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) in western Amazonia". Phyllomedusa6 (1): 11–21.