Enyalioides

Enyalioides
Enyalioides rubrigularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Hoplocercidae
Genus:	Enyalioides Boulenger, 1885

Enyalioides is a genus of lizards in the family Hoplocercidae. ^{[1] [2]} The genus is native to the northern part of South America and Panama. ^[3]

They are also referred to as woodlizards, ^[3] although individual species are also called dwarf iguanas. ^[2]

Species

The following 19 species are recognized as being valid. ^[1]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Enyalioides altotambo Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015		tropical northwestern Andes in Ecuador
	Enyalioides anisolepis Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015		Amazonian slopes of the Andes range in southern Ecuador and northern Peru.
	Enyalioides annularis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881)	ringed manticore, ringed spinytail iguana	Ecuador,southern Colombia
	Enyalioides azulae Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 2013 [3]		Peru
	Enyalioides binzayedi Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 2013 [3]		Peru
	Enyalioides cofanorum Duellman, 1973	Cofán wood lizard, Duellman's dwarf iguana	Colombia and Ecuador
	Enyalioides feiruzae Venegas, Chávez, García-Ayachi, Duran & Torres-Carvajal, 2021		Río Huallaga Basin, Peru
	Enyalioides groi Dunn, 1933	Gro’s manticores, Dunn's spinytail lizard, Dunn's spinytail iguana	Panama, northwestern Colombia
	Enyalioides heterolepis (Bocourt, 1874)	Bocourt's dwarf iguana	Colombia, Ecuador, Panama
	Enyalioides laticeps (Guichenot, 1855)	Amazon wood lizard	Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Peru
	Enyalioides microlepis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881)	small-scaled woodlizard, tiny-scale dwarf iguana	Ecuador (east of the Andes), southern Colombia, northern Peru
	Enyalioides oshaughnessyi (Boulenger, 1881)	red-eyed woodlizard, O'Shaughnessy's dwarf iguana	northern Ecuador, southern Colombia
	Enyalioides palpebralis (Boulenger, 1883)	horned wood lizard	northern Bolivia, western Brazil, and eastern Peru
	Enyalioides peruvianus Köhler, 2003	Cenepa manticore	northern Peru
	Enyalioides praestabilis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881)	blue-spotted wood lizard	Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
	Enyalioides rubrigularis Torres-Carvajal, De Queiroz & Etheridge, 2009 [4]	red-throated wood lizard	Ecuador
	Enyalioides rudolfarndti Venegas, Duran, Landauro & Lujan, 2011		central Peru
	Enyalioides sophiarothschildae Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015		Cordillera Central in northeastern Peru
	Enyalioides touzeti Torres-Carvajal, Almendáriz, Valencia, Yánez-Muñoz & Reyes, 2008 [5]	Touzet's woodlizard	southwestern Ecuador (Azuay Province), northwestern Peru

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

References

1. Enyalioides at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 9 September 2021.
2. "Enyalioides Boulenger, 1885". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 9 September 2021.
3. Venegas, P.; Torres-Carvajal, O.; Duran, V.; de Queiroz, K. (2013). "Two sympatric new species of woodlizards (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from Cordillera Azul National Park in northeastern Peru". ZooKeys (277): 69–90. Bibcode:2013ZooK..277...69V. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.277.3594 . PMC   3677373 . PMID   23794824.
4. Torres-Carvajal, Omar; de Queiroz, Kevin; Etheridge, Richard (2009). "A new species of iguanid lizard (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from southern Ecuador with a key to eastern Ecuadorian Enyalioides". ZooKeys (27): 59–71. Bibcode:2009ZooK...27...59T. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.27.273 .
5. Torres-Carvajal, Omar; Almendáriz, Ana; Valencia, Jorge; Yánez-Muñoz, Mario; Reyes, Juan P. (2008). "A new species of Enyalioides (Iguanidae: Hoplocercinae) from southwestern Ecuador". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 48 (20): 227–235. doi: 10.1590/S0031-10492008002000001 .

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. Iguanidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Enyaliodes, new genus, p. 112).