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Higher TaxaLeiosauridae (Enyaliinae), Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Wied's Fathead Anole
Portuguese: Camaleãozinho, Papa-Vento 
SynonymAgama catenata WIED 1821: 247
Lophyrus rhombifer SPIX 1825: 9
Lophyrus margaritaceus SPIX 1825: 10
Lophyrus albomaxillaris SPIX 1825: 11
Ophryessa catenata — BOIE 1825
Ophryoessa margariteceus — FITZINGER 1826: 48
Uraniscodon (Ophryessa) catenata — KAUP 1827: 91
Uraniscodon rhombifer — KAUP 1827: 90
Uraniscodon (Ophryessa) margariteceus — KAUP 1827
Enyalius catenatus — WAGLER 1830: 150
Ophyessa (Plica) braziliensis — GRAY 1831 (?) [non LESSON]
Ophyessa (Xiphura) rhombifer — GRAY
Enyalus [sic] rhombifer — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 231
Hypsibatus (Enyalius) catenatus — FITZINGER 1843
Hypsibatus (Enyalius) margariteceus — FITZINGER 1843
Enyalius catenatus — BOULENGER 1885: 118
Enyalius catenatus paulista IHERING 1898: 102
Enyalius catenatus — ETHERIDGE 1969: 244
Enyalius catenatus — PETERS et al. 1970: 118
Enyalius catenatus catenatus — JACKSON 1978
Enyalius catenatus— FROST et al. 2001
Enyalius catenatus catenatus — RODRIGUES et al. 2006
Enyalius catenatus — CARVALHO et al. 2023 
DistributionE Brazil (from Pernambuco south to Santa Catarina; Minas Gerais, Bahia, Paraíbaetc.)

Type locality: Cabeça do Boi, Bahia, Brazil (fide ETHERIDGE 1968) [= Jequié, Bahia]; “sertao (= interior) of Bahia” (fide JACKSON 1978).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost (fide JACKSON 1978), was: AMNH 108 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): ETHERIDGE 1969: 235. For a comparison of Enyalius and Enyalioides see ETHERIDGE 1969: 256.


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CommentSynonymy partly after Peters et al. 1970, ETHERIDGE 1969. JACKSON (1978) suggested that E. bibronii, E. pictus and E. catenatus were intergrading subspecies of one species.

Type species: Agama catenata WIED 1821 is the type species of the genus Enyalius WAGLER 1830 (by designation, FITZINGER 1843: 16).

Distribution: See map in Breitman et al. 2019: 357 (Fig. 1). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin catenatus, chained, fettered. (WAGLER, 1830, Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024)

The genus was named after Greek enialius (ἐνυάλιος), warlike, furious 
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