Anisolepis undulatus
Wiegmann's tree lizard, Anisolepis undulatus, is a species of lizard in the family Leiosauridae. The species is endemic to South America.
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Iguania |
Family: | Polychrotidae |
Genus: | Anisolepis |
Species: | A. undulatus |
Binomial name | |
Anisolepis undulatus (Wiegmann, 1834) | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Conservation status
A. undulatus is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
Taxonomy and etymology
The junior synonym, Anisolepis iheringii, is the type species of the genus Anisolepis.[2] The specific name, iheringii, is in honor of German-Brazilian zoologist Hermann von Ihering.[3]
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References
- Di Bernardo M, Martins MB (2000). "Anisolepis undulatus ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000: e.T39907A10281977. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T39907A10281977.en.
- Anisolepis undulatus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- 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. (Anisolepis iheringii, p. 129).
Further reading
- Boulenger GA (1886). "A Synopsis of the Reptiles and Batrachians of the Province Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Fifth Series 18: 423โ445. (Anisolepis undulatus, new combination, p. 426).
- Etheridge R, Williams EE (1991). "A Review of the South American Lizard Genera Urostrophus and Anisolepis (Squamata: Iguania: Polychridae)". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 152 (5): 317โ361. (Anisolepis undulatus, pp. 339โ344, Figures 7-10).
- Wiegmann AFA (1834). Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae, quae itineribus comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum Zoologicum Berolinense pervenerunt. Pars prima, saurorum species amplectens. Adiecto systematis saurorum prodromo, additisque multis in hunc amphibiorum ordinen observationibus. Berlin: C.G. Lรผderitz. vi + 54 pp. + Plates I-X. (Laemanctus undulatus, new species, p. 46). (in Latin).
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