Alopoglossus buckleyi

Alopoglossus buckleyi, known commonly as Buckley's shade lizard and Buckley's teiid, is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is endemic to northwestern South America.

Alopoglossus buckleyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Alopoglossidae
Genus: Alopoglossus
Species:
A. buckleyi
Binomial name
Alopoglossus buckleyi
Synonyms[2]
  • Leposoma buckleyi
    O'Shaughnessy, 1881
  • Alopoglossus buckleyi
    — Boulenger, 1885

Etymology

The specific name, buckleyi, is in honor of Clarence Buckley (1839–1889) who collected the holotype.[3]

Geographic range

A. buckleyi is found in Brazil (Amazonas, Acre), Colombia (Amazonas), eastern Ecuador, and eastern Peru (Loreto).[2]

Habitat

The natural habitat of A. buckleyi is forest at altitudes of 230–1,830 m (750–6,000 ft).[1]

Description

A. buckleyi is a small species of lizard. The holotype has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 5.1 cm (2.0 in).[4]

Reproduction

A. buckleyi is oviparous.[2]

References
  1. Calderón M, Perez P, Avila-Pires TCS, Aparicio J, Moravec J (2016). "Alopoglossus buckleyi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T44578087A44578096. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T44578087A44578096.en. Downloaded on 04 October 2019.
  2. Alopoglossus buckleyi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 July 2019.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Alopoglossus buckleyi, p. 42).
  4. Boulenger (1885).

Further reading
  • Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Teiidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Alopoglossus buckleyi, new combination, p. 385).
  • Köhler G, Diethert H-H, Veselý M (2012). "A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Lizard Genus Alopoglossus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)". Herpetological Monographs 26 (1): 173–188. (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).
  • O'Shaughnessy AWE (1881). "An Account of the Collection of Lizards made by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador, and now in the British Museum, with Descriptions of the new Species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 227-245 + Plates XXII-XXV. (Leposoma buckleyi, new species, pp. 233-235 + Plate XXII, figures 2, 2a, 2b).
  • Ribeiro-Júnior MA, Amaral S (2017). "Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. 4. Alopoglossidae, Gymnophthalmidae". Zootaxa 4269 (2): 151–196.



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