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Alopoglossus festae

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Species of lizard

Alopoglossus festae
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Alopoglossidae
Genus: Alopoglossus
Species: A. festae
Binomial name
Alopoglossus festae
(Peracca, 1896)
Synonyms

Alopoglossus festae is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is native to northwestern South America.

Etymology

The specific name, festae, is in honor of Italian zoologist Enrico Festa.

Geographic range

A. festae is found in southwestern Colombia and adjacent northwestern Ecuador.

Habitat

The preferred habitat of A. festae is forest at altitudes of 10–2,000 m (33–6,562 ft).

Reproduction

A. festae is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Cisneros-Heredia, D.F.; Velasco, J.; Bolívar, W. (2016). "Alopoglossus festae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T44578111A44578114. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T44578111A44578114.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ Alopoglossus festae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 July 2019.
  3. 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. (Alopoglossus festae, p. 89).

Further reading

  • Artega A, Pyron RA, Peñafiel N, Romero-Barreto P, Culebras J, Bustamante L, Yánez-Muñoz MH, Guayasamin JM (2016). "Comparative Phylogeography Reveals Cryptic Diversity and Repeated Patterns of Cladogenesis for Amphibians and Reptiles in Northwestern Ecuador". PLoS ONE 11 (4): e0151746.
  • Hernández-Morales C, Sturaro MJ, Sales-Nunes P, Lotzkat S, Peloso PLV (2020). "A species-level total evidence phylogeny of the microteiid lizard family Alopoglossidae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea)". Cladistics 36 (3): 301–321.
  • Peracca MG (1896). "Descrizione di un nuovo genere e di una nuova specie di Teiidae raccolta nel Darien dal dott. E. Festa". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Regia Università di Torino 11 (235): 1-4. (Diastemalepis festae, new species, pp. 2–4, Figures 1–5). (in Italian).
  • Ruibal R (1952). "Revisionary Studies of some South American Teiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 106: 475–529. (Alopoglossus festae, pp. 502–505).
Taxon identifiers
Alopoglossus festae


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