Enyalioides
Enyalioides is a genus of lizards in the family Hoplocercidae. The genus is native to the northern part of South America and Panama.
- Common names: woodlizards,[1] wood lizards.
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| Enyalioides rubrigularis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Hoplocercidae |
| Genus: | Enyalioides Boulenger, 1885 |
Species
15 species are recognized:[2]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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 | 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 azulae Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 2013 | Peru | |
 | Enyalioides binzayedi Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 2013 | Peru | |
| Enyalioides cofanorum Duellman, 1973 | Cofán wood lizard | Colombia & Ecuador | |
 | 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), S Colombia, N Peru | |
| Enyalioides oshaughnessyi (Boulenger, 1881) | red-eyed woodlizard, O'Shaughnessy's Dwarf Iguana | N Ecuador, S Colombia | |
 | Enyalioides palpebralis (Boulenger, 1883) | horned wood lizard | northern Bolivia, western Brazil and eastern Peru |
 | Enyalioides praestabilis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) | blue-spotted wood lizard | Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |
 | Enyalioides rubrigularis Torres-Carvajal, De Queiroz & Etheridge, 2009[3] | red-throated wood lizard | Ecuador |
| Enyalioides rudolfarndti Venegas, Duran, Landauro & Lujan, 2011 | C Peru | ||
| Enyalioides sophiarothschildae Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015 | Cordillera Central in northeastern Peru | ||
| Enyalioides touzeti Torres-Carvajal, Almendáriz, Valencia, Yánez-Muñoz & Reyes, 2008[4] | Touzet's woodlizards | SW Ecuador (Azuay), NW Peru | |
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Enyalioides.
References
- 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.277.3594. PMC 3677373. PMID 23794824.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- Genus Enyalioides at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- Torres-Carvajal, O.; de Queiroz, K.; Etheridge, R. (2009). "A new species of iguanid lizard (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from southern Ecuador with a key to eastern Ecuadorian Enyalioides ". ZooKeys Archived February 9, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, 27: 59-71. doi:10.3897/zookeys.27.273
- Torres-Carvajal, O.; Almendáriz, A.; Valencia, J.; Yánez-Muñoz, M.; Reyes, J.P. (2008). "A new species of Enyalioides (Iguanidae: Hoplocercinae) from southwestern Ecuador". Papéis Avulsos de Zoología 48: 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).
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