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Euspondylus

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Euspondylus
Female euspondylus oreades
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gymnophthalmidae
Tribe: Cercosaurini
Genus: Euspondylus
Tschudi, 1845 [1]

Euspondylus is a genus of lizards in the family Gymnophthalmidae.

Geographic range

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The genus Euspondylus is endemic to northern South America.[2]

Species

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The following 10 species are recognized as being valid.[2]

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

References

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  1. ^ "Euspondylus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gymnophthalmidae.
  2. ^ a b Genus Euspondylus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ Doan, Tiffany M.; Adams, Grant (2015). "A novel species of Euspondylus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Andes Mountains of central Peru". Zootaxa 4033 (1): 129-136. (Euspodylus paxcorpus, new species).

Further reading

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  • Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Teiidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Genus Euspondylus, p. 404).
  • Tschudi JJ (1845). "Reptilium conspectus quae in Republica Peruana reperiuntur et pleraque observata vel collecta sunt in itenere ". Archiv für Naturgeschichte 11 (1): 150–170. (Euspondylus, new genus, pp. 160–161). (in Latin).