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Enyalioides

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Enyalioides
Enyalioides rubrigularis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

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The following 19 species are recognized as being valid.[1]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
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 annularis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) ringed manticore, ringed spinytail iguana Ecuador,southern Colombia
Enyalioides azulae Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 2013[3] Peru
Enyalioides binzayedi Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 2013[3] Peru
Enyalioides cofanorum Duellman, 1973 Cofán wood lizard, Duellman's dwarf iguana Colombia and Ecuador
Enyalioides feiruzae Venegas, Chávez, García-Ayachi, Duran & Torres-Carvajal, 2021 Río Huallaga Basin, Peru
Enyalioides groi Dunn, 1933 Gro’s manticores, Dunn's spinytail lizard, Dunn's spinytail iguana Panama, northwestern Colombia
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), southern Colombia, northern Peru
Enyalioides oshaughnessyi (Boulenger, 1881) red-eyed woodlizard, O'Shaughnessy's dwarf iguana northern Ecuador, southern Colombia
Enyalioides palpebralis (Boulenger, 1883) horned wood lizard northern Bolivia, western Brazil, and eastern Peru
Enyalioides peruvianus Köhler, 2003 Cenepa manticore northern Peru
Enyalioides praestabilis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) blue-spotted wood lizard Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
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

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  1. ^ a b Enyalioides at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 9 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Enyalioides Boulenger, 1885". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  3. ^ 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. Bibcode:2013ZooK..277...69V. doi:10.3897/zookeys.277.3594. PMC 3677373. PMID 23794824.
  4. ^ 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. Bibcode:2009ZooK...27...59T. doi:10.3897/zookeys.27.273.
  5. ^ 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

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  • 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).