Anisolepis

Anisolepis is a small genus of lizards in the family Iguanidae. The genus is endemic to South America.

Anisolepis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Polychrotidae
Genus: Anisolepis
Boulenger, 1885

Species

Three species are known from South America.[1]

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

Etymology

The specific name, grilli, is in honor of Italo-Brazilian physician Giuseppe Franco Grillo.[2]

References

  1. Genus Anisolepis at The Reptile Database
  2. 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. (Anisolepis grilli, p. 108).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1885). "Second List of Reptiles and Batrachians from the Province Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, sent to the Natural-History Museum by Dr. H. von Ihering". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Fifth Series 16: 85–88. (Anisolepis, new genus, pp. 85-86).


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