Callopistes

Callopistes Temporal range: Early Miocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
False monitor (Callopistes flavipunctatus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Teiidae
Subfamily:	Callopistinae
Genus:	Callopistes Gravenhorst, 1838
Species
C. flavipunctatus (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron), 1839 C. maculatus Gravenhorst, 1838 † C. bicuspidatus Deschamps & Tomassini, 2016 † C. rionegrensis Quadros et al., 2018

Callopistes is a genus of lizards in the family Teiidae. The genus contains two extant species, which are native to Ecuador, Peru, and Chile, as well as two fossil species found in Argentina.

Species

Listed alphabetically. ^[1]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Callopistes flavipunctatus (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839)	False monitor	Peru and Ecuador.
	Callopistes maculatus Gravenhorst, 1838	Spotted false monitor	Chile

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

Fossils

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	† Callopistes bicuspidatus	Monte Hermoso Formation, Argentina [2]
	† Callopistes rionegrensis	Chichinales Formation, Argentina [3]

References

1. Callopistes. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
2. Farola Monte Hermoso at Fossilworks.org
3. Quadros, Ana B.; Chafrat, Pablo; Zaher, Hussam (2018). "A new teiid lizard of the genus Callopistes Gravenhorst, 1838 (Squamata, Teiidae), from the lower Miocene of Argentina". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 38 (4): (1)-(18). doi:10.1080/02724634.2018.1484754. S2CID   91195492.

Further reading

• Gravenhorst JLC (1838). "Beiträge zur genaueren Kenntniss einiger Eidechsengattungen ". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher / Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae18 (2): 712–784. (Callopistes, new genus, pp. 743–744). (in German).