Enyalioides
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| Enyalioides rubrigularis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Hoplocercidae |
| Genus: | Enyalioides Boulenger, 1885 |
Enyalioides is a genus of lizards in the family Hoplocercidae.[1][2] The genus is native to the northern part of South America and Panama.[3]
They are also referred to as woodlizards,[3] although individual species are also called dwarf iguanas.[2]
Species
The following 19 species are recognized as being valid.[1]
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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. | ||
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Enyalioides annularis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) | ringed manticore, ringed spinytail iguana | Ecuador,southern Colombia |
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Enyalioides azulae Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 2013[3] | Peru | |
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Enyalioides binzayedi Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 2013[3] | Peru | |
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Enyalioides cofanorum Duellman, 1973 | Cofán wood lizard, Duellman's dwarf iguana | Colombia and Ecuador |
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Enyalioides feiruzae Venegas, Chávez, García-Ayachi, Duran & Torres-Carvajal, 2021 | Río Huallaga Basin, Peru | |
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Enyalioides groi Dunn, 1933 | Gro’s manticores, Dunn's spinytail lizard, Dunn's spinytail iguana | Panama, northwestern Colombia |
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Enyalioides heterolepis (Bocourt, 1874) | Bocourt's dwarf iguana | Colombia, Ecuador, Panama |
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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), southern Colombia, northern Peru | |
| Enyalioides oshaughnessyi (Boulenger, 1881) | red-eyed woodlizard, O'Shaughnessy's dwarf iguana | northern Ecuador, southern Colombia | |
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Enyalioides palpebralis (Boulenger, 1883) | horned wood lizard | northern Bolivia, western Brazil, and eastern Peru |
| Enyalioides peruvianus Köhler, 2003 | Cenepa manticore | northern Peru | |
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Enyalioides praestabilis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) | blue-spotted wood lizard | Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |
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Enyalioides rubrigularis Torres-Carvajal, De Queiroz & Etheridge, 2009[4] | red-throated wood lizard | Ecuador |
| Enyalioides rudolfarndti Venegas, Duran, Landauro & Lujan, 2011 | central Peru | ||
| Enyalioides sophiarothschildae Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015 | Cordillera Central in northeastern Peru | ||
| Enyalioides touzeti Torres-Carvajal, Almendáriz, Valencia, Yánez-Muñoz & Reyes, 2008[5] | Touzet's woodlizard | southwestern Ecuador (Azuay Province), northwestern Peru |
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Enyalioides.
References
- ^ a b Enyalioides at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 9 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Enyalioides Boulenger, 1885". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ Torres-Carvajal, Omar; de Queiroz, Kevin; Etheridge, Richard (2009). "A new species of iguanid lizard (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from southern Ecuador with a key to eastern Ecuadorian Enyalioides". ZooKeys (27): 59–71. doi:10.3897/zookeys.27.273.
- ^ Torres-Carvajal, Omar; Almendáriz, Ana; Valencia, Jorge; Yánez-Muñoz, Mario; Reyes, Juan P. (2008). "A new species of Enyalioides (Iguanidae: Hoplocercinae) from southwestern Ecuador". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 48 (20): 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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