Procellosaurinus tetradactylus RODRIGUES, 1991

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Higher Taxa	Gymnophthalmidae (Gymnophthalminae), Gymnophthalmini, Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Rodrigues' Four-fingered Teiid
Synonym	Procellosaurinus tetradactylus RODRIGUES 1991 Procellosaurinus tetradactylus — HÖFLING & RENOUS 2004 Procellosaurinus tetradactylus — CASTOE et al. 2004
Distribution	Brazil (Bahia) Type locality: Alagoado, Bahia (09°29’ S, 41°21’ W).
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MZUSP 11.597
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: “Dezesseis fileiras de escamas ao redor do meio do corpo: quatro delas entre as faixas claras dorsolaterais, as duas externas sempre majores que as duas centrais. Faixa clara dorsolateral fortemente marginada por negro da prefrontal até poueo após a raiz do braco, dar até a raiz da cauda urn fino pontilhado negro limita superiormente a faixa dorsolateral.” [RODRIGUES 1991].
Comment
Etymology	Named after Greek tetras (τετράς), the number four + Greek dactylos (δάκτυλος), finger, toe. (RODRIGUES 1991, Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024)
References	Castoe, T.A.; Doan, T.M. & Parkinson, C.L. 2004. Data partitions and complex models in Bayesian analysis: the phylogeny of Gymnophthalmid lizards. Systematic Biology 53 (3): 448-469 - get paper here Höfling, Elizabeth and Sabine Renous 2004. High frequency of pauses during intermittent locomotion of small South American gymnophthalmid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae). Phyllomedusa 3 (2): 83-94 - get paper here Ramiro, Carolina Nisa; Mauro Teixeira Junior and Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues 2017. Reproductive Biology of Three Sympatric Species of Gymnophthalmid Lizards from the Sand Dunes of the Middle São Francisco River, Bahia, Brazil. South American J. Herp. 12 (1): 76–88 - get paper here Renous, Sabine; Elizabeth Höfling and Vincent Bels 2008. Locomotion patterns in two South American gymnophthalmid lizards: Vanzosaura rubricauda and Procellosaurinus tetradactylus. Zoology 111 (4): 295-308 - get paper here Rodrigues, M. T. 1991. Herpetofauna das dunas interiores do Rio Sào Francisco, Bahia, Brazil. III. Procellosaurinus: um novo genero de microteiideos sem palpebra, com a redefinicao do genero Gymnophthalmus (Sauria, Teiidae). Papéis Avulsos Zoology (Sao Paulo) 37 (21): 329-342 - get paper here Rodrigues, M.T. 2003. Herpetofauna da Caatinga. In: I.R. Leal, M. Tabarelli & J.M.C. Silva (eds.). Ecologia e conservação da Caatinga, pp. 181-236. Editora Universitária, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil. Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut; Katia Cristina Machado Pellegrino, Marianna Dixo, Vanessa Kruth Verdade, Dante Pavan, Antônio Jorge Suzart Argolo, and Jack W. Sites Jr. 2007. A new genus of microteiid lizard from the Atlantic forests of State of Bahia, Brazil, with a new generic name for Colobosaura mentalis, and a discussion of relationships among the Heterodactylini (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae). American Museum novitates (3565): 1-27 - get paper here Uchôa LR, Delfim FR, Mesquita DO, Colli GR, Garda AA, Guedes TB 2022. Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Caatinga, northeastern Brazil: Detailed and updated overview. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 599-659 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.grupo.org.br/logos/prof/ze/doutorad.htm Google images

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