Oreosaurus cephalolineatus GARCIA-PEREZ & YUSTIZ, 1995
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Oreosaurus cephalolineatus
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| Higher Taxa | Gymnophthalmidae (Cercosaurinae), Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Proctoporus cephalolineatus GARCIA-PEREZ & YUSTIZ 1995 Oreosaurus cephalolineatus — ESQUEDA et al. 2017 |
| Distribution | Venezuela (Lara: Cordillera de la Costa de Venezuela, Cordillera de Mérida), Trinidad Type locality: carretera entre Cubiro y Sanare (945' N y 69 37' W; 1450 m. s. n. m.), Municipio Morán, Estado Lara, Venezuela. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: ULABG 3202 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: “Un Proctoporus del grupo luctuosus (Uzzell, 1958) que se caracteriza por la siguiente combinación de caracteres: tamaño pequeño; vientre sin manchas; dos líneas claras oblícuas que cruzan los labios; dos líneas dorsolaterales claras; 6 escamas ventrales; escamas dorsales quilladas y subhexagonales; escamas laterales ligeramente más pequeñas que las dorsales; 23 poros femorales. Otras características que lo diferencian de las especies del grupo, señaladas por Uzzell (1958), se enumeran en la Tabla 1.” (GARCIA-PEREZ & YUSTIZ 1995) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. However, these details, e.g. detailed descriptions (about about .85 pages) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material. |
| Comment | This species is probably not a Proctoporus because it has prefrontals (DOAN & SCHARGEL 2003 and SCHARGEL, pers. comm.). Instead, it could belong to either Euspondylus or Pholidobolus. The single specimen of P. cephalolineatus could be an aberrant specimen of the geographically close P. inanis, a species from the Andes of Mérida recently described and now in the genus Riama (Doan & Schargel 2003; Doan & Castoe 2005), in which case the name P. cephalolineatus would have priority. Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). |
| Etymology | Named after Greek kéfali (κεφάλη), head of man or beast + Latin lineatus, lined. [“...Superficie dorsal de la cabeza, parda, con numerosas manchas oscuras. Una línea clara difusa, que nace en el borde posterior de la comisura ocular, limitada por manchas oscuras, se extiende hasta la cola...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) |
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