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Alopoglossus
Alopoglossus vallensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Superfamily:	Lacertoidea
(unranked):	Gymnophthalmoidea
Family:	Alopoglossidae Goicoechea, Frost, De la Riva, Pellegrino, Sites, Rodrigues & Padial, 2016
Genus:	Alopoglossus Boulenger, 1885
Species
32, see text.
Synonyms
Ptychoglossus Boulenger, 1890

Alopoglossus is a genus of lizards in the monogeneric family Alopoglossidae. The genus is distributed from Costa Rica in Central America to northern South America.

Species

The genus Alopoglossus contains the following 32 valid species:

• Alopoglossus amazonius Ruthven, 1924 – Amazonanian teiid
• Alopoglossus andeanus (Ruibal, 1952)
• Alopoglossus angulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) – northern teiid
• Alopoglossus atriventris Duellman, 1973 – keel-bellied shade lizard
• Alopoglossus avilapiresae Ribeiro-Júnior, Choueri, Lobos, Venegas, Torres-Carvajal & Werneck, 2020
• Alopoglossus bicolor (F. Werner, 1916) – Werner's largescale lizard
• Alopoglossus bilineatus Boulenger, 1890
• Alopoglossus brevifrontalis Boulenger, 1912 – Boulenger's largescale lizard
• Alopoglossus buckleyi (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) – Buckley's teiid
• Alopoglossus carinicaudatus (Cope, 1876) – northern teiid
• Alopoglossus collii Ribeiro-Júnior, Choueri, Lobos, Venegas, Torres-Carvajal & Werneck, 2020
• Alopoglossus copii Boulenger, 1885 – drab shade lizard
• Alopoglossus danieli Harris, 1994 – Daniel's largescale lizard
• Alopoglossus embera Peloso & Morales, 2017
• Alopoglossus eurylepis Harris & Rueda, 1985 – largescale lizard
• Alopoglossus festae (Peracca, 1896)
• Alopoglossus gansorum Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck & Meiri, 2021
• Alopoglossus gorgonae Harris, 1994
• Alopoglossus grandisquamatus Rueda, 1985 – common largescale lizard
• Alopoglossus harrisi Hernández-Morales, Sturaro, Sales-Nunes, Lotzkat & Peloso, 2020
• Alopoglossus indigenorum Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck & Meiri, 2021
• Alopoglossus kugleri Roux, 1927 – Kugler's largescale lizard
• Alopoglossus lehmanni Ayala & Harris, 1984
• Alopoglossus meloi Ribeiro-Júnior, 2018
• Alopoglossus myersi Harris, 1994
• Alopoglossus plicatus (Taylor, 1949) – Taylor's largescale lizard
• Alopoglossus romaleos Harris, 1994
• Alopoglossus stenolepis (Boulenger, 1908)
• Alopoglossus tapajosensis Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck & Meiri, 2021
• Alopoglossus theodorusi Ribeiro-Júnior, Meiri & Fouquet, 2020
• Alopoglossus vallensis Harris, 1994
• Alopoglossus viridiceps Torres-Carvajal & Lobos, 2014 – green-headed shade lizard

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Alopoglossus.

References

1. ^ Hernández Morales, Cristian; Sturaro, Marcelo J.; Nunes, Pedro M. Sales; Lotzkat, Sebastian & Peloso, Pedro L.V. (2020). "A species-level total evidence phylogeny of the microteiid lizard family Alopoglossidae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea)". Cladistics. 36 (3): 301–321. doi:10.1111/cla.12407. PMID 34618959. S2CID 213010219.
2. ^ Alopoglossus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 August 2020.
3. News Staff / Source (2014). "New Species of Shade Lizard Discovered in Ecuador". at Sci-News.com.

Further reading

• 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. (Alopoglossus, new genus, p. 383).

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