Alopoglossus festae
Alopoglossus festae is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is endemic to northwestern South America.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Alopoglossidae |
| Genus: | Alopoglossus |
| Species: | A. festae |
| Binomial name | |
| Alopoglossus festae Peracca, 1904 | |
Etymology
The specific name, festae, is in honor of Italian zoologist Enrico Festa.[2]
Geographic range
A. festae is found in southwestern Colombia and adjacent northwestern Ecuador.[1][3]
Reproduction
gollark: Not a very good one.
gollark: Hey, *you're* the one now annoyed at it because you just filled up everything.
gollark: Well, it's a use, just not a useful use.
gollark: 64k *fluid* cells? That's so useless.
gollark: Probably due to the lack of tooling for producing them on-demand.
References
- Cisneros-Heredia DF, Velasco J, Bolívar W (2016). "Alopoglossus festae ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T44578111A44578114. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T44578111A44578114.en. Downloaded on 04 October 2019.
- 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).
- Alopoglossus festae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 July 2019.
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.
- Peracca MG (1904). "Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nell'Ecuador e regioni vicine. Rettili ed Amphibii ". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Regia Università di Torino 19 (465): 1-41. (Alopoglossus festae, new species, pp. 7-9). (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).
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