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Alopoglossus vallensis (HARRIS, 1994)

IUCN Red List - Alopoglossus vallensis - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaAlopoglossidae, Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymPtychoglossus vallensis HARRIS 1994: 263
Euspondylus vallensis — CASTRO-HERRERA & VARGAS-SALINAS 2008
Ptychoglossus vallensis — PELOSO & AVILA-PIRES 2010
Alopoglossus vallensis — HERNÁNDEZ-MORALES et al. 2020 
DistributionWC Colombia (Valle del Cauca, Upper Cauca River drainage, 1000 - 1700 m elevations)

Type locality: 2.5 km above La Voragin (a recreation center on the road between Cali and Pance, 1400 m elevation), Rio Pance, Municipality of Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ICN-MHN = ICN 5652, adult male; other specimens: BMNH, ICN, UMMZ, AMNH, UTACV 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. Ptychoglossus vallensis, like P. stenolepis of the same region, has widely separated prefrontal scales, a long body, and narrow dorsal scales as indicated by the high counts of scales around midbody (36-44). It can be distinguished from P. stenolepis by a flatter side profile, moderate-size lateral neck scales (smaller than nuchals), hexagonal dorsal scales obtusely to acutely pointed behind, undivided posterior chin shields, presence of preanal pores, dorsally separated frontal and premaxillary bones, and 17 (not eight) hemipenial flounces. Ptychoglossus gorgonae is a similar, lower elevation species, with prefrontals in broad contact and a median marginal preanal scale. The arrangement of broad symmetrical flaps across the tip of the hemipenis is a unique feature of P. vallensis. (Harris 1994)


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after the Colombian department "Valle". 
References
  • Castro-Herrera, F. & Vargas-Salinas, F. 2008. Anfibios y reptiles en el departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Biota Colombiana 9 (2): 251 - 277 - 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
  • Morales, Hernández; C. , Peloso, P. L., Bolívar García, W. and Daza, J. D. 2018. Skull Morphology of the lizard Ptychoglossus vallensis (Squamata: Alopoglossidae) with comments on the variation within Gymnophthalmoidea. Anat Rec., doi:10.1002/ar.24038 - 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
  • Valencia-Zuleta A, Jaramillo-Martínez AF, Echeverry-Bocanegra A, Viáfara-Vega R, Hernández-Córdoba O, Cardona-Botero VE, Gutiérrez-Zúñiga J, Castro-Herrera F. 2014. Conservation status of the herpetofauna, protected areas, and current problems in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 8 (2): 1–18 (e87) - get paper here
 
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