Colobosauroides is a small genus of lizards in the family Gymnophthalmidae.[1][2] The genus Colobosauroides is endemic to Brazil.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gymnophthalmidae |
| Tribe: | Ecpleopodini |
| Genus: | Colobosauroides da Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991[1][2] |
Geographic range
editSpecies in the genus Colobosauroides are found in northeastern Brazil, in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Ceará.[2]
Species
editThe genus Colobosauroides includes only the following two species:[2]
- Colobosauroides carvalhoi M. Soares & Caramaschi, 1998
- Colobosauroides cearensis da Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991
Etymology
editThe specific name, carvalhoi, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Antenor Leitão de Carvalho.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Colobosauroides ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gymnophthalmidae.
- ^ a b c d "Colobosauroides ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
- ^ 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. (Colobosauroides carvalhoi, p. 49).
Further reading
edit- da Cunha OR, Lima-Verde JS, Lima ACM (1991). "Novo genero e espécie de lagarto do Estado do Ceará (Lacertilia: Teiidae)". Boletim Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Nova Série Zoologia 7 (2): 163–176. (Colobosauroides, new genus; C. cearensis, new species). (in Portuguese).
- Soares M, Caramaschi U (1998). "Espécie nova de Colobosauroides Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991 do estado da Bahia, Brasil (Squamata, Sauria, Gymnophthalmidae)". Bol. Mus. Nac. Nov. Sér., Rio de Janeiro 388: 1–8. (Colobosauroides carvalhoi, new species). (in Portuguese).
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