Biology:Alopoglossus copii
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Short description: Species of lizard
| Alopoglossus copii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Alopoglossidae |
| Genus: | Alopoglossus |
| Species: | A. copii
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| Binomial name | |
| Alopoglossus copii Boulenger, 1885
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Alopoglossus copii, known commonly as the drab shade lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is native to northwestern South America.
Etymology
The specific name, copii, is in honor of American herpetologist Edward Drinker Cope.[1]
Geographic range
A. copii is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[2]
Habitat
The preferred habitat of A. copii is forest at altitudes of 310–1,390 m (1,020–4,560 ft).[3]
Reproduction
References
- ↑ 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 copii, p. 59).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Alopoglossus copii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 July 2019.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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Further reading
- 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. (Alopoglossus copii, new species, pp. 383–384 + Plate XX, figures 1, 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d).
- Duellman WE (1978). "The Biology of an Equatorial Herpetofauna in Amazonian Ecuador". University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Miscellaneous Publications (65): 1–352. (Alopoglossus copii, p. 210, Figure 123).
- Goicoechea N, Frost DR, De la Riva I, Pellegrino KCM, Sites J, Rodrigues MT, Padial JM (2016). "Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment". Cladistics 32 (6): 624–671.
- 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. (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).
Wikidata ☰ Q2839310 entry
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