Biology:Anisolepis undulatus
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Short description: Species of lizard
Wiegmann's tree lizard | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Iguania |
Family: | Leiosauridae |
Genus: | Anisolepis |
Species: | A. undulatus
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Binomial name | |
Anisolepis undulatus (Wiegmann, 1834)
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Synonyms[2] | |
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Wiegmann's tree lizard, Anisolepis undulatus, is a species of lizard in the family Leiosauridae. The species is endemic to South America.
Geographic range
A. undulatus is found in Argentina , Brazil , and Uruguay.[2]
Habitat
The natural habitat of A. undulatus is temperate forests.[1]
Reproduction
Conservation status
A. undulatus is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
Taxonomy and etymology
The junior synonym, Anisolepis iheringii, is the type species of the genus Anisolepis.[2] The specific name, iheringii, is in honor of German-Brazilian zoologist Hermann von Ihering.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Di Bernardo M, Martins MB (2000). "Anisolepis undulatus ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T39907A10281977. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T39907A10281977.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/39907/10281977.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Anisolepis undulatus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- ↑ 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. (Anisolepis iheringii, p. 129).
Further reading
- Boulenger GA (1886). "A Synopsis of the Reptiles and Batrachians of the Province Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Fifth Series 18: 423–445. (Anisolepis undulatus, new combination, p. 426).
- Etheridge R, Williams EE (1991). "A Review of the South American Lizard Genera Urostrophus and Anisolepis (Squamata: Iguania: Polychridae)". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 152 (5): 317–361. (Anisolepis undulatus, pp. 339–344, Figures 7-10).
- Wiegmann AFA (1834). Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae, quae itineribus comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum Zoologicum Berolinense pervenerunt. Pars prima, saurorum species amplectens. Adiecto systematis saurorum prodromo, additisque multis in hunc amphibiorum ordinen observationibus. Berlin: C.G. Lüderitz. vi + 54 pp. + Plates I-X. (Laemanctus undulatus, new species, p. 46). (in Latin).
Wikidata ☰ Q4765360 entry