Stenocercus torquatus BOULENGER, 1885

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Higher Taxa	Tropiduridae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Stenocercus torquatus BOULENGER 1885: 160 Stenocercus crassicaudatus — BURT & BURT 1931 (part.) Stenocercus torquatus — TORRES-CARVAJAL 2005
Distribution	C Peru (eastern slopes of Andes: Pasco, Junin), 800-1800 m elevation. Type locality: Peru”, restricted to “María Teresa, 19 km on road Oxapampa-Llaupi (10° 42’ 05’’ S, 75° 27’ 22’ W), 1470 m elevation, Departamento Pasco, Peru.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 61.5.22.4
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: TORRES-CARVAJAL 2007. 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 .33 pages) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material.
Comment	Has been synonymized previously with Stenocercus crassicaudatus but resurrected by TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2005. Belongs to the clades Scelotrema and Microphractus (fide TORRES-CARVAJAL 2006). mainly arboreal. Sympatric with S. boetteri, S. formosus, and S. scapularis (in Pasco). S. variabilis occurs allopatrically at higher elevations (>2500 m) in Junin.
Etymology	Named after the Latin torquatus, "adorned with a necklace or collar", refers to the conspicuous, light-bordered black collar in these lizards.
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here Burt,C.E. & Burt,M.D. 1931. South American lizards in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History. Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist. 61 (7): 227-395 - get paper here Carranza, S.; E. N. Arnold & F. Amat 2004. DNA phylogeny of Lacerta (Iberolacerta) and other lacertine lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae): did competition cause long-term mountain restriction? Systematics and Biodiversity 2 (1): 57-77 - get paper here Torres-Carvajal, O.; Lehr, E. & Lundberg, M. 2005. Resurrection of Stenocercus torquatus Boulenger, a spiny-tailed iguanid lizard (Squamata: Iguania) from Peru. Herpetologica 61 (4): 440-448 - get paper here Torres-Carvajal, Omar; James A. Schulte II and John E. Cadle 2006. Phylogenetic relationships of South American lizards of the genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Iguania): A new approach using a general mixture model for gene sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39 (1): 171-185 - get paper here VENEGAS, PABLO J.; LOURDES Y. ECHEVARRIA & SILVANA C. ALVAREZ 2014. A new species of spiny-tailed iguanid lizard (Iguania: Stenocercus) from northwestern Peru. Zootaxa 3753 (1): 047–058 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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