Enyalioides

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Enyalioides
File:Enyalioides rubrigularis male head.jpg
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

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

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
File:Enyalioides altotambo.jpg Enyalioides altotambo Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015 tropical northwestern Andes in Ecuador
File:Three-new-species-of-woodlizards-(Hoplocercinae-Enyalioides)-from-northwestern-South-America-zookeys-494-107-g005 (cropped).jpg Enyalioides anisolepis Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015 Amazonian slopes of the Andes range in southern Ecuador and northern Peru.
File:Morunasaurus annularis 75491002.jpg Enyalioides annularis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) ringed manticore, ringed spinytail iguana Ecuador,southern Colombia
File:Holotype of Enyalioides azulae - ZooKeys-277-069-g001-top.jpg Enyalioides azulae Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 2013[3] Peru
File:Adult female of Enyalioides binzayedi - ZooKeys-277-069-g009-F.jpg Enyalioides binzayedi Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 2013[3] Peru
File:Enyalioides cofanorum DT -K Pañacocha- 1204 (2) (20557901709).jpg Enyalioides cofanorum Duellman, 1973 Cofán wood lizard, Duellman's dwarf iguana Colombia and Ecuador
File:Enyalioides feiruzae (A, CORBIDI 14916, paratype) (10.3897-evolsyst.5.69227) Plate 4 (cropped).jpg Enyalioides feiruzae Venegas, Chávez, García-Ayachi, Duran & Torres-Carvajal, 2021 Río Huallaga Basin, Peru
File:Morunasaurus groi 14039955.jpg Enyalioides groi Dunn, 1933 Gro’s manticores, Dunn's spinytail lizard, Dunn's spinytail iguana Panama, northwestern Colombia
File:Enyalioides heterolepis.JPG Enyalioides heterolepis (Bocourt, 1874) Bocourt's dwarf iguana Colombia, Ecuador, Panama
File:Enyalioides laticeps.jpg 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
File:Enyalioides oshaughnessyi 252671981 (cropped).jpg Enyalioides oshaughnessyi (Boulenger, 1881) red-eyed woodlizard, O'Shaughnessy's dwarf iguana northern Ecuador, southern Colombia
File:Enyalioides palpebralis Peru2.jpg Enyalioides palpebralis (Boulenger, 1883) horned wood lizard northern Bolivia, western Brazil, and eastern Peru
Enyalioides peruvianus Köhler, 2003 Cenepa manticore northern Peru
File:Enyalioides praestabilis male.jpg Enyalioides praestabilis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) blue-spotted wood lizard Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
File:Enyalioides rubrigularis male 3.jpg Enyalioides rubrigularis Torres-Carvajal, De Queiroz & Etheridge, 2009[4] red-throated wood lizard Ecuador
File:Enyalioides rudolfarndti (10.3897-evolsyst.5.69227) Plate 4 (cropped).jpg 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

  1. 1.0 1.1 Enyalioides at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 9 September 2021.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Enyalioides Boulenger, 1885". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 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

  • 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).