Alopoglossus danieli (HARRIS, 1994)

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Higher Taxa	Alopoglossidae, Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Daniel's Largescale Lizard
Synonym	Ptychoglossus danieli HARRIS 1994: 239 Ptychoglossus festae — BURT & BURT 1931 Ptychoglossus danieli — PELOSO & AVILA-PIRES 2010 Alopoglossus danieli — HERNÁNDEZ-MORALES et al. 2020
Distribution	Colombia (temperate uplands [1500 - 2000 m] of the northern Central Cordillera, Antioquia) Type locality: Heliconia, Antioquia, Colombia, 1500 m elevation.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MLS 2000 (= CSJ 221), adult male; paratypes: AMNH, MLS,
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Ptychoglossus danieli is the only species with the combination of high number of transverse dorsal scale rows (31-33), rounded lateral snout protile, no lateral told or zone of small scales and relatively long body with short limbs (at most, adpressed limbs touch in adults). A pair of large squarish pregulars, a characteristic unique to this species, lie between the posterior chin shields. (Harris 1994) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 4088 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
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Etymology	Named after Brother Daniel Julián Gonzáles, successor to Brother Apolinar Maria and Nicéforo María as director of the Museum at Instituto La Salle, Bogotá, and for many years director of the museum at Colegio San José, Medellín.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Harris,D.M. 1994. Review of the teiid lizard genus Ptychoglossus. Herpetological Monographs 8: 226-275 - get paper here Hernández-Morales, C., Sturaro, M.J., Nunes, P.M.S., Lotzkat, S. and Peloso, P.L. 2020. A species‐level total evidence phylogeny of the microteiid lizard family Alopoglossidae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea). Cladistics - get paper here Páez, V.P. et al. 2002. Guía de campo de algunas especies de anfibios y reptiles de Antioquia. Universidad de Antioquia, - get paper here Peloso, Pedro L. V. and Teresa C. S. Avila-Pires 2010. Morphological Variation in Ptychoglossus brevifrontalis Boulenger, 1912 and the Status of Ptychoglossus nicefori (Loveridge, 1929) (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae. Herpetologica 66 (3): 357-372 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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