Proctoporus

Proctoporus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Scincomorpha
Family:	Gymnophthalmidae
Genus:	Proctoporus; Tschudi, 1845
Species
	P. pachyurus Tschudi, 1845 (type); P. bolivianus (F. Werner, 1910) synonym P. subsolanus; P. chasqui (Chávez, Siu-Tinf, Dúran & Venegas, 2011) synonym Euspondylus chasqui; P. guentheri Boettger, 1891 synonyms Oreosaurus guentheri, O. ocellifer, O. anomalus; P. sucullucu Doan & Castoe, 2003; P. unsaacae Doan & Castoe, 2003; P. xestus (Uzzell, 1969) synonym Opipeuter xestus;
Synonyms
	Opipeuter Uzzell, 1969, non Fortey, 1974 (a trilobite)

Proctoporus is a genus of medium-sized lizards (between 2.7 centimetres or 1.1 inches and 7.8 centimetres or 3.1 inches) assigned to the family Gymnophthalmidae. Species in the genus Proctoporus occur in yungas forests and wet montane grasslands on the upper edge of the Amazonian forest, between 1,000 and 4,000 metres (3,300 and 13,100 ft) elevation, from Central Peru in the north to Central Bolivia in the south.^[1]

Taxonomy

Species previously assigned to Proctoporus

Proctoporus achlyens
Proctoporus anatoloros
Proctoporus balneator
Proctoporus cashcaensis
Proctoporus cephalolineatus
Proctoporus colomaromani
Proctoporus columbianus
Proctoporus hypostictus
Proctoporus inanis
Proctoporus labionis
Proctoporus laevis
Proctoporus luctuosus
Proctoporus machupicchu
Proctoporus meleagris
Proctoporus oculatus
Proctoporus orcesi
Proctoporus pachyurus
Proctoporus petrorum
Proctoporus raneyi
Proctoporus shrevei
Proctoporus simoterus
Proctoporus stigmatoral
Proctoporus striatus
Proctoporus unicolor
P. ventrimaculatus = Petracola ventrimaculatus (dwarf plated tegu)
Proctoporus vespertinus
Proctoporus vietus

References

^ ^a ^b Goicoechea, N.; Padial, J.M.; Chaparro, J.C.; Castrovejo-Fisher, S.; De la Riva, I. (2012). "Molecular phylogenetics, species diversity, and biogeography of the Andean lizards of the genus Proctoporus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 65: 953–964. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.08.017.

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[Goicoechea-1] Goicoechea, N.; Padial, J.M.; Chaparro, J.C.; Castrovejo-Fisher, S.; De la Riva, I. (2012). "Molecular phylogenetics, species diversity, and biogeography of the Andean lizards of the genus Proctoporus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 65: 953–964. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.08.017.

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