Anisolepis is a small genus of lizards in the family Leiosauridae. The genus is endemic to South America.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Iguania |
Family: | Leiosauridae |
Genus: | Anisolepis Boulenger, 1885 |
Species
editThree species are known from South America.[1]
- Anisolepis grilli Boulenger, 1891 – Boulenger's tree lizard
- Anisolepis longicauda (Boulenger, 1891)
- Anisolepis undulatus (Wiegmann, 1834) – Wiegmann's tree lizard
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Anisolepis.
References
edit- ^ Genus Anisolepis at The Reptile Database
Further reading
edit- Boulenger GA (1885). "Second List of Reptiles and Batrachians from the Province Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, sent to the Natural-History Museum by Dr. H. von Ihering". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fifth Series 16: 85–88. (Anisolepis, new genus, pp. 85–86).