Biology:Alopoglossus atriventris

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Short description: Species of lizard

Alopoglossus atriventris
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Alopoglossidae
Genus: Alopoglossus
Species:
A. atriventris
Binomial name
Alopoglossus atriventris

Alopoglossus atriventris, known commonly as the keel-bellied shade lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is endemic to northwestern South America.

Etymology

The specific name, atriventris, is from Latin ater (black) + venter (belly),[2] referring to the black belly of the male.[3]

Geographic range

A. atriventris is found in Brazil (Acre, western Amazonas), Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[4]

Habitat

The natural habitat of A. atriventris is lowland tropical forest[4] at altitudes of 130–1,500 m (430–4,920 ft),[1] where it lives in the leaf litter of the forest floor.[4]

Reproduction

A. atriventris is oviparous.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Calderón M, Perez P, Avila-Pires TCS, Aparicio J, Moravec J (2019). "Alopoglossus atriventris ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T44578076A44578081. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T44578076A44578081.en. Downloaded on 04 October 2019.
  2. Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press. 1,055 pp. (in two volumes). ("English equivalents of Latin names", p. 3).
  3. Duellman (1973).
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Alopoglossus atriventris at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 July 2019.

Further reading

  • Duellman WE (1973). "Descriptions of New Lizards from the Upper Amazon Basin". Herpetologica 29 (3): 228–231. (Alopoglossus ariventris, new species, p. 228).
  • Köhler G, Diethert H-H, Veselý M (2012). "A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Lizard Genus Alopoglossus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)". Herpetological Monographs 26 (1): 173–188.
  • Ribeiro-Júnior MA (2018). "A new species of Alopoglossus lizard (Squamata, Alopoglossidae) from the Southern Guiana Shield, northeastern Amazonia, with remarks on diagnostic characters to the genus". Zootaxa 4422 (1): 025–040.
  • Ribeiro-Júnior MA, Amaral S (2017). "Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. 4. Alopoglossidae, Gymnophthalmidae". Zootaxa 4269 (2): 151–196.
  • Vitt LJ, Ávila-Pires TCS, Espósito MC, Sartorius SS, Zani PA (2007). "Ecology of Alopoglossus angulatus and A. atriventris (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) in western Amazonia". Phyllomedusa 6 (1): 11–21.

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