Loxopholis snethlageae

Loxopholis snethlageae is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae.[1] The species is endemic to Brazil.

Loxopholis snethlageae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gymnophthalmidae
Genus: Loxopholis
Species:
L. snethlageae
Binomial name
Loxopholis snethlageae
(Ávila-Pires, 1995)
Synonyms[1]
  • Leposoma snethlageae
    Ávila-Pires, 1995
  • Loxopholis snethlageae
    — Goicoechea et al., 2016

Etymology

The specific name, snethlageae, is in honor of German-Brazilian ornithologist Emilie Snethlage.[2]

Geographic range

L. snethlageae is found in the drainage basins of the Solimões River and the Urucu River, in the southwestern part of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, in northwestern Brazil.[1][3]

Reproduction

L. snethlageae is oviparous.[1]

References
  1. Loxopholis snethlageae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 28 July 2019.
  2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leposoma snethlageae, p. 248).
  3. Ávila-Pires TCS (1995).

Further reading
  • Ávila-Pires TCS (1995). "Lizards of Brazilian Amazonia (Reptilia: Squamata)". Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden 299: 1–706. (Leposoma snethlageae, new species, pp. 411–415, Figures 142a–142c). (in English, with abstracts in Portuguese and Spanish).
  • Goicoechea N, Frost DR, De la Riva I, Pelligrino KCM, Sites J Jr, Rodrigues MT, Padial JM (2016). "Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment". Cladistics 32 (6): 624–671. (Loxopholis snethlageae, new combination, p. 670).
  • Ribeiro-Júnior MA, Amaral S (2016). "Diversity, distribution, and conservation of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) in the Brazilian Amazonia". Neotropical Diversity 2 (1): 195–421. (Leposoma snethlageae).
  • Ribeiro-Júnior MA, Amaral S (2017). "Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. IV. Alopoglossidae, Gymnophthalmidae". Zootaxa 4269 (2): 151–196.


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