Glaucomastix

Glaucomastix
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Teiidae
Subfamily:	Teiinae
Genus:	Glaucomastix Goicoechea, Frost, De la Riva, Pellegrino, Sites, Rodrigues & Padial, 2016

Glaucomastix is a genus of lizards that belongs to the family Teiidae. The genus is endemic to Brazil.

Species

The genus Glaucomastix contains the following five species, listed alphabetically by specific name. ^[1]

• Glaucomastix abaetensis (Reis Dias, Rocha & Vrcibradic, 2002) – Bahian sand dune lizard
• Glaucomastix cyanura (Arias, Carvalho, Rodrigues & Zaher, 2011)
• Glaucomastix itabaianensis Rosário, Santos, Arias, Rocha, Reis Dias, Carvalho & Rodrigues, 2019
• Glaucomastix littoralis (Rocha, Bamberg Araújo, Vrcibradic & Mamede da Costa, 2000)
• Glaucomastix venetacauda (Arias, Carvalho, Rodrigues & Zaher, 2011)

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

References

1. Genus Glaucomastix at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org

Further reading

• Goicoechea, N; Frost, DR; De la Riva, I; Pellegrino, KCM; Sites, J Jr; Rodrigues, MT; Padial, JM (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. PMID   34727678. (Glaucomastix, new genus, p. 671).