Enyalioides

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]

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

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]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Enyalioides altotambo Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015tropical northwestern Andes in Ecuador
Enyalioides anisolepis Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015Amazonian slopes of the Andes range in southern Ecuador and northern Peru.
Enyalioides annularis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881)ringed manticore, ringed spinytail iguanaEcuador,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, 1973Cofán wood lizard, Duellman's dwarf iguanaColombia and Ecuador
Enyalioides feiruzae Venegas, Chávez, García-Ayachi, Duran & Torres-Carvajal, 2021Río Huallaga Basin, Peru
Enyalioides groi Dunn, 1933Gro’s manticores, Dunn's spinytail lizard, Dunn's spinytail iguanaPanama, northwestern Colombia
Enyalioides heterolepis (Bocourt, 1874)Bocourt's dwarf iguanaColombia, Ecuador, Panama
Enyalioides laticeps (Guichenot, 1855)Amazon wood lizardColombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Peru
Enyalioides microlepis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881)small-scaled woodlizard, tiny-scale dwarf iguanaEcuador (east of the Andes), southern Colombia, northern Peru
Enyalioides oshaughnessyi (Boulenger, 1881)red-eyed woodlizard, O'Shaughnessy's dwarf iguananorthern Ecuador, southern Colombia
Enyalioides palpebralis (Boulenger, 1883)horned wood lizardnorthern Bolivia, western Brazil, and eastern Peru
Enyalioides peruvianus Köhler, 2003Cenepa manticorenorthern Peru
Enyalioides praestabilis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881)blue-spotted wood lizardColombia, Ecuador, and Peru
Enyalioides rubrigularis Torres-Carvajal, De Queiroz & Etheridge, 2009[4]red-throated wood lizardEcuador
Enyalioides rudolfarndti Venegas, Duran, Landauro & Lujan, 2011central Peru
Enyalioides sophiarothschildae Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015Cordillera Central in northeastern Peru
Enyalioides touzeti Torres-Carvajal, Almendáriz, Valencia, Yánez-Muñoz & Reyes, 2008[5]Touzet's woodlizardsouthwestern 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

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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