Biology:Alopoglossus festae

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Short description: Species of lizard

Alopoglossus festae
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Alopoglossidae
Genus: Alopoglossus
Species:
A. festae
Binomial name
Alopoglossus festae
(Peracca, 1896)
Synonyms[1]
  • Diastemalepis festae
    Peracca, 1896
  • Ptychoglossus festae
    — J. Peters & Donoso-Barros, 1970
  • Alopoglossus festae
    — Hernández-Morales et al., 2020

Alopoglossus festae is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is native to northwestern South America.

Etymology

The specific name, festae, is in honor of Italian zoologist Enrico Festa.[2]

Geographic range

A. festae is found in southwestern Colombia and adjacent northwestern Ecuador.[3][1]

Habitat

The preferred habitat of A. festae is forest at altitudes of 10–2,000 m (33–6,562 ft).[3]

Reproduction

A. festae is oviparous.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Alopoglossus festae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 July 2019.
  2. 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 festae, p. 89).
  3. 3.0 3.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named iucn status 18 November 2021

Further reading

  • Artega A, Pyron RA, Peñafiel N, Romero-Barreto P, Culebras J, Bustamante L, Yánez-Muñoz MH, Guayasamin JM (2016). "Comparative Phylogeography Reveals Cryptic Diversity and Repeated Patterns of Cladogenesis for Amphibians and Reptiles in Northwestern Ecuador". PLoS ONE 11 (4): e0151746.
  • Hernández-Morales C, Sturaro MJ, Sales-Nunes P, Lotzkat S, Peloso PLV (2020). "A species-level total evidence phylogeny of the microteiid lizard family Alopoglossidae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea)". Cladistics 36 (3): 301–321.
  • Peracca MG (1896). "Descrizione di un nuovo genere e di una nuova specie di Teiidae raccolta nel Darien dal dott. E. Festa". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Regia Università di Torino 11 (235): 1-4. (Diastemalepis festae, new species, pp. 2–4, Figures 1–5). (in Italian).
  • Ruibal R (1952). "Revisionary Studies of some South American Teiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 106: 475–529. (Alopoglossus festae, pp. 502–505).

Wikidata ☰ Q5313597 entry