Cercosaura pacha MAMANI, CHAPARRO, CORREA, ALARCÓN, SALAS & CATENAZZI, 2020
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Cercosaura pacha
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| Higher Taxa | Gymnophthalmidae (Cercosaurinae), Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Cercosaura pacha MAMANI, CHAPARRO, CORREA, ALARCÓN, SALAS & CATENAZZI 2020 |
| Distribution | Peru (Pasco) Type locality: Lanturachi, Fundo los Cocos, District of Huancabamba, Province of Oxapampa, Department of Pasco, Peru (10°23′02” S, 75°34′49” W, at 1986 m. |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: MUBI 14515 (Figure 6), an adult female, collected by J.C. Chaparro and C. Alarcón on 21 September 2014. Paratype: MUBI 14512 (Figure 7), a subadult female from near the type locality (10°23’29” S, 75°34’12”W, 1845 m). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: (1) Body robust, SVL 49.7mmin a single adult female; (2) head flat, elongated, 1.4 times longer than wide; (3) ear opening distinct, slightly recessed; (4) nasals separated by frontonasal; (5) frontonasal undivided; (6) prefrontals, frontal, frontoparietals, parietals and interparietal present; (7) parietals longer than wide; (8) three supraocular; (9) 3–5 superciliar series complete; (10) nasal suture absent; (11) loreal present, in contact with the second supralabial; (12) 7–8 supralabial, four supralabials anterior to the posteroventral angle of the subocular, four infralabials; (13) 4–5 genial, all in contact; (14) collar fold present; (15) 32–35 transverse rows of dorsal, hexagonal, keeled, imbricate; (16) 19–20 transverse ventral rows, quadrangular, smooth, juxtaposed; (17) 37–38 scales around midbody; (18) lateral reduced scales at midbody in three lines; (19) limbs pentadactyl, all digits clawed; (20) 12–13 subdigital lamellae under finger IV, 18 under toe IV; (21) 6–7 femoral pores in females; (22) two preanal scales, three postanal scales; (23) tail up to 2.0 times longer than body; (24) caudals subimbricate, keeled dorsally, smooth ventrally; (25) lower palpebral disc transparent and divided in two; (26) in life the dorsum is brown with two cream dorsolateral stripe that stars over the eyes and join in the middle of the body forming a vertebral dorsal stripe that extends to the tail; lips with a cream line that extend from the third supralabial to the front of back leg; a cream lateral line between arm and leg, below the lateral line; all cream lines are bordered by continuous black spots; the venter is cream-reddish with some small scattered black spots, the gular region of head is cream-reddish with small black spots; tail is orange, with small dark spots ventrally and dorsally, and a cream-orange line laterally that begins at the back of legs and continues to tip of the tail (Figures 6 and 7). |
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| Etymology | The specific epithet “pacha” is a female noun in Quechua language that means Earth. |
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