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Haensch's whorltail iguana

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Species of lizard

Haensch's whorltail iguana
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Tropiduridae
Genus: Stenocercus
Species: S. haenschi
Binomial name
Stenocercus haenschi
(F. Werner, 1901)
Synonyms
  • Liocephalus formosus
    Boulenger, 1880
  • Liocephalus haenschi
    F. Werner, 1901
    (nomen substitutum)
  • Ophryoessoides haenschi
    — Etheridge, 1966
  • Stenocercus haenschi
    — Fritts, 1974

Haensch's whorltail iguana (Stenocercus haenschi) is a species of lizard in the family Tropiduridae. The species is native to Ecuador.

Geographic range

S. haenschi is endemic to Bolívar Province of Ecuador, where it is only known from one locality.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of S. haenschi is forest.

Behavior

S. haenschi is arboreal.

Reproduction

S. haenschi is oviparous.

Conservation status

S. haenschi is considered to be critically endangered and possibly extinct.

Etymology

S. haenschi is named in honor of German entomologist Richard Haensch.

References

  1. ^ Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. (2017). "Stenocercus haenschi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T178690A54447325. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T178690A54447325.en. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ Species Stenocercus haenschi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  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. (Stenocercus haenschi, p. 113).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1880). "Reptiles et Batraciens recueillis par M. Émile de Ville dans les Andes de l'Équateur ". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 5: 41–48. (Liocephalus formosus, new species, p. 43). (in French).
  • Werner F (1901). "Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Ecuador und Neu-Guinea". Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 51: 593–614. (Liocephalus haenschi, new species, p. 595). (in German).


Taxon identifiers
Stenocercus haenschi


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