Enyalioides

Enyalioides is a genus of lizards in the Hoplocercidae family. The genus is endemic to the northern part of South America and Panama.

Common names: woodlizards,[1] wood lizards.

Enyalioides
Enyalioides rubrigularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Hoplocercidae
Genus: Enyalioides
Boulenger, 1885

Species

Currently, 15 species are recognized:[2]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Enyalioides altotambo Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015tropical northwestern Andes in Ecuador
Enyalioides anisolepis Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015Amazonian slopes of the Andes range in southern Ecuador and northern Peru.
Enyalioides azulae Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 2013Peru
Enyalioides binzayedi Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 2013Peru
Enyalioides cofanorum Duellman, 1973Cofán wood lizardColombia & Ecuador
Enyalioides heterolepis (Bocourt, 1874)Bocourt's Dwarf IguanaColombia; Ecuador; Panama
Enyalioides laticeps (Guichenot, 1855)Amazon wood lizardColombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Peru
Enyalioides microlepis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881)small-scaled woodlizard, Tiny-scale Dwarf IguanaEcuador (east of the Andes), S Colombia, N Peru
Enyalioides oshaughnessyi (Boulenger, 1881)red-eyed woodlizard, O'Shaughnessy's Dwarf IguanaN Ecuador, S Colombia
Enyalioides palpebralis (Boulenger, 1883)horned wood lizardnorthern Bolivia, western Brazil and eastern Peru
Enyalioides praestabilis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881)blue-spotted wood lizardColombia, Ecuador, and Peru
Enyalioides rubrigularis Torres-Carvajal, De Queiroz & Etheridge, 2009[3]red-throated wood lizardEcuador
Enyalioides rudolfarndti Venegas, Duran, Landauro & Lujan, 2011C Peru
Enyalioides sophiarothschildae Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015Cordillera Central in northeastern Peru
Enyalioides touzeti Torres-Carvajal, Almendáriz, Valencia, Yánez-Muñoz & Reyes, 2008[4]Touzet's woodlizardsSW Ecuador (Azuay), NW Peru

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

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References

  1. Venegas, P.; Torres-Carvajal, O.; Duran, V.; De Queiroz, K. (2013). "Two sympatric new species of woodlizards (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from Cordillera Azul National Park in northeastern Peru". ZooKeys. 277: 69–90. doi:10.3897/zookeys.277.3594. PMC 3677373. PMID 23794824.
  2. 15 in Reptile Database, including two described in March 2013 by Venegas, P.; Torres-Carvajal, O.; Duran, V.; De Queiroz, K. (2013). "Two sympatric new species of woodlizards (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from Cordillera Azul National Park in northeastern Peru". ZooKeys. 277: 69–90. doi:10.3897/zookeys.277.3594. PMC 3677373. PMID 23794824.
  3. Torres-Carvajal, O.; de Queiroz, K.; Etheridge, R. (2009). "A new species of iguanid lizard (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from southern Ecuador with a key to eastern Ecuadorian Enyalioides ". ZooKeys Archived February 9, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, 27: 59-71. doi:10.3897/zookeys.27.273
  4. Torres-Carvajal, O.; Almendáriz, A.; Valencia, J.; Yánez-Muñoz, M.; Reyes, J.P. (2008). "A new species of Enyalioides (Iguanidae: Hoplocercinae) from southwestern Ecuador". Papéis Avulsos de Zoología 48: 227–235. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492008002000001

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. Iguanidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Enyaliodes, new genus, p. 112).


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