Cercosaura schreibersii, known commonly as Schreibers's many-fingered teiid or the long-tailed little lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The species is endemic to South America.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gymnophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Cercosaura |
| Species: | C. schreibersii
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| Cercosaura schreibersii Wiegmann, 1834
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Etymology
editThe specific name, schreibersii, is in honor of Austrian naturalist Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers.[3]
Geographic range
editC. schreibersii is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.[2]
Habitat
editThe preferred natural habitats of C. schreibersii are forest, savanna, shrubland, and grassland.[1]
Subspecies
editTwo subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.[2]
- Cercosaura schreibersii albostrigatus (Griffin, 1917)
- Cercosaura schreibersii schreibersii Wiegmann, 1834
Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Cercosaura.
Reproduction
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Carreira S, Kacoliris F, Pelegrin N, Montero R, Moravec J, Gonzales L, Aparicio J, Avila-Pires TCS, Nogueira CC (2019). "Cercosaura schreibersii ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T178697A61324472. Downloaded on 21 July 2019.
- ^ a b c d e Cercosaura schreibersii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 21 July 2019.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cercosaura schreibersi, p. 238).
Further reading
edit- Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Teiidæ ... . London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Pantodactylus schreibersii, pp. 388–389).
- Wiegmann AFA (1834). Herpetologia Mexicana, seu Descriptio Amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae, quae Itineribus Comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chri. Guil. Schiede in Museum Berolinense Pervenerunt. Pars Prima, Saurorum Species Amplectens. Adiecto Systematis Saurorom Prodromo, Additisque Multis in hunc Amphibiorum Ordinem Observervationibus. Berlin: C.G. Lüderitz. vi + 54 pp + Plates I-X. (Cercosaura schreibersii, new species, p. 10). (in Latin).
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