Cercosaura is a genus of lizards in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The genus is endemic to South America.
| Cercosaura | |
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| Cercosaura oshaughnessyi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gymnophthalmidae |
| Tribe: | Cercosaurini |
| Genus: | Cercosaura Wagler, 1830 |
Taxonomy
editThe genus Cercosaura includes 18 species according to studies that transfer species from the two genera Pantodactylus and Prionodactylus to this genus.[1]
Species
editThe genus Cercosaura contains the following recognized species:[2]
- Cercosaura anomala Müller. 1923 – anomalous cercosaura
- Cercosaura anordosquama Sturaro, Rodrigues, Colli, Knowles & Avila-Pires, 2018
- Cercosaura argulus W. Peters, 1863 – elegant eyed lizard, white-lipped prionodactylus
- Cercosaura bassleri Ruibal, 1952 – ocellated tegu
- Cercosaura doanae Echevarría, Barboza & Venegas, 2015
- Cercosaura eigenmanni (Griffin, 1917) – Eigenmann's prionodactylus
- Cercosaura hypnoides Doan & Lamar, 2012
- Cercosaura manicata O'Shaughnessy, 1881 – slender prionodactylus
- Cercosaura nigroventris (Gorzula & Señaris, 1999)
- Cercosaura ocellata Wagler, 1830 – ocellated tegu
- Cercosaura olivacea Gray, 1845 – olive tegu
- Cercosaura oshaughnessyi (Boulenger, 1885) – white-striped eyed lizard
- Cercosaura pacha Mamani, Chaparro, Correa, Alarcón, Salas, & Catenazzi. 2020
- Cercosaura parkeri (Ruibal, 1952) – Parker's many-fingered teiid
- Cercosaura phelpsorum (Lancini, 1968)
- Cercosaura quadrilineata Boettger, 1876 – lined many-fingered teiid
- Cercosaura schreibersii Wiegmann, 1834 – Schreibers' many-fingered teiid, long-tailed little lizard
- Cercosaura steyeri (Tedesco, 1998)
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Cercosaura.
References
edit- ^ Doan TM, Lamar WW (2012). "A new montane species of Cercosaura (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Colombia, with notes on the distribution of the genus" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3565: 44–54. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3565.1.4.
- ^ Genus Cercosaura at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
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. (Genus Cercosaura, p. 395).
- Wagler J (1830). Natürliches System der AMPHIBIEN, mit vorangehender Classification der SÄUGTHIERE und VÖGEL. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. Munich, Stuttgart and Tübingen: J.G. Cotta. vi + 354 pp. + one plate. (Cercosaura, new genus, p. 158). (in German and Latin).
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