Selvasaura

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Selvasaura
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gymnophthalmidae
Genus: Selvasaura
Moravec, Šmid, Štundl, & Lehr, 2018

Selvasaura is a genus of the lizard family Gymnophthalmidae. The genus contains three species. [1]

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References

  1. Genus Selvasaura at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  2. O. Torres-Carvajal, Parra V., Sales-Nunes P.M., Koch C., 2021. A New Species of Microtegu Lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae) from Amazonian Ecuador. Journal of Herpetology 55 (4): 385–395. DOI: 10.1670/20-142
  3. Moravec J, Šmíd J, Štundl J, Lehr E 2018. Systematics of Neotropical microteiid lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae), with the description of a new genus and species from the Andean montane forests. ZooKeys 774: 105-139. DOI:10.3897/zookeys.774.25332
  4. G. Chávez, L. A. García-Ayachi and A. Catenazzi. 2023. A New Species of Microteiid Lizard (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurini, Selvasaura) from A Remote Area in the Peruvian Andes. Evolutionary Systematics. 7(1): 123-132. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.7.99118
  5. L. Y. Echevarría , Venegas P. J., García-Ayachi L. A., Nunes P.M.S, 2021. An elusive new species of gymnophthalmid lizard (Cercosaurinae, Selvasaura) from the Andes of northern Peru. Evolutionary Systematics 5(2): 177-187. DOI:10.3897/evolsyst.5.68520
  6. David Brito-Zapata, Juan M. Guayasamin, Vanessa Parra, Omar Torres-Carvajal and Carolina Reyes-Puig. 2023. A New Species of Microtegu (Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae) of the Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador. Revista Latinoamericana De Herpetología 6(2): 17–37. DOI: 10.22201/fc.25942158e.2023.2.575