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Colobosauroides
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Colobosauroides

Colobosauroides is a small genus in the family of spectacled lizards.[1][2] Colobosauroides is endemic to Brazil.

Geographic range

Species in the genus Colobosauroides are found in northeastern Brazil, in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Ceará.[2]

Species

The genus Colobosauroides includes only the following two species:[2]

Etymology

The specific name, carvalhoi, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Antenor Leitão de Carvalho.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gymnophthalmidae.
  2. ^ a b c d The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
  3. ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Colobosauroides carvalhoi, p. 49).

Further reading

  • da Cunha OR, Lima-Verde JS, Lima ACM. 1991. "Novo genero e espécie de lagarto do Estado do Ceará (Lacertilia: Teiidae)". Boletim Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Nova Série Zoologia 7 (2): 163-176. (Colobosauroides, new genus; C. cearensis, new species). (in Portuguese).
  • Soares M, Caramaschi U. 1998. "Espécie nova de Colobosauroides Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991 do estado da Bahia, Brasil (Squamata, Sauria, Gymnophthalmidae)". Bol. Mus. Nac. Nov. Sér., Rio de Janeiro 388: 1-8. (Colobosauroides carvalhoi, new species). (in Portuguese).