Alopoglossus atriventris, known commonly as the keel-bellied shade lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is endemic to northwestern South America.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Alopoglossidae |
| Genus: | Alopoglossus |
| Species: | A. atriventris
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| Binomial name | |
| Alopoglossus atriventris Duellman, 1973
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Etymology
editThe specific name, atriventris, is from Latin ater (black) + venter (belly),[2] referring to the black belly of the male.[3]
Geographic range
editA. atriventris is found in Brazil (Acre, western Amazonas), Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[4]
Habitat
editThe natural habitat of A. atriventris is lowland tropical forest[4] at altitudes of 130–1,500 m (430–4,920 ft),[1] where it lives in the leaf litter of the forest floor.[4]
Reproduction
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Calderón M, Perez P, Avila-Pires TCS, Aparicio J, Moravec J (2019). "Alopoglossus atriventris ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T44578076A44578081. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T44578076A44578081.en. Downloaded on 04 October 2019.
- ^ Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press. 1,055 pp. (in two volumes). ("English equivalents of Latin names", p. 3).
- ^ Duellman (1973).
- ^ a b c d Alopoglossus atriventris at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 July 2019.
Further reading
edit- Duellman WE (1973). "Descriptions of New Lizards from the Upper Amazon Basin". Herpetologica 29 (3): 228–231. (Alopoglossus ariventris, new species, p. 228).
- Köhler G, Diethert H-H, Veselý M (2012). "A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Lizard Genus Alopoglossus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)". Herpetological Monographs 26 (1): 173–188.
- Ribeiro-Júnior MA (2018). "A new species of Alopoglossus lizard (Squamata, Alopoglossidae) from the Southern Guiana Shield, northeastern Amazonia, with remarks on diagnostic characters to the genus". Zootaxa 4422 (1): 025–040.
- Ribeiro-Júnior MA, Amaral S (2017). "Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. 4. Alopoglossidae, Gymnophthalmidae". Zootaxa 4269 (2): 151–196.
- Vitt LJ, Ávila-Pires TCS, Espósito MC, Sartorius SS, Zani PA (2007). "Ecology of Alopoglossus angulatus and A. atriventris (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) in western Amazonia". Phyllomedusa 6 (1): 11–21.
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