Alopoglossus buckleyi (O’SHAUGHNESSY, 1881)

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Higher Taxa	Alopoglossidae, Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Buckley's Teiid
Synonym	Leposoma buckleyi O’SHAUGHNESSY 1881: 233 Alopoglossus buckleyi — BOULENGER 1885: 385 Alopoglossus buckleyi — WERNER 1910: 30 Alopoglossus buckleyi — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 15 Alopoglossus buckleyi — KÖHLER et al. 2012 Alopoglossus buckleyi — HERNÁNDEZ-MORALES et al. 2020
Distribution	Brazil (Amazonas, Acre), E Ecuador, Colombia (Amazonas), E Peru (Loreto), elevation 210–1830 m Type locality: Canelos, Ecuador
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.31.66
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Scales on sides of neck very small and granular; gulars in oblique irregular rows; dorsals rhomboidal, strongly keeled and mucronate; scales on flanks smaller than dorsals and irregular; ventrals smooth, posterior margins round or obtusely pointed [KÖHLER et al. 2012].
Comment	Probably also in Bolivia (fide LANGSTROTH 2005). Distribution: see map in KÖHLER et al. 2012.
Etymology	Named after the collector of the types, Mr. Buckley.
References	Avila-Pires, T.C.S. 1995. Lizards of Brazilian Amazonia (Reptilia: Squamata). Zoologische Verhandelingen 299: 1-706 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here 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 CATENAZZI, A., LEHR, E. & VON MAY, R. 2013. The amphibians and reptiles of Manu National Park and its buffer zone, Amazon basin and eastern slopes of the Andes, Peru. Biota Neotropica 13 (4): 269-283 DIAGO-TORO, MARÍA F.; DANIELA GARCÍA-COBOS, GIOVANNI D. BRIGANTE-LUNA & JUAN D. VÁSQUEZ-RESTREPO. 2021. Fantastic lizards and where to find them: cis-Andean microteiids (Squamata: Alopoglossidae & Gymnophthalmidae) from the Colombian Orinoquia and Amazonia. Zootaxa 5067 (3): 377–400. - 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 Köhler, Gunther; Hans-Helmut Diethert, and Milan Veselý 2012. A Contribution To the Knowledge of the Lizard Genus Alopoglossus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae). Herpetological Monographs 26 (1): 173-188. - get paper here Langstroth, R.P. 2005. Adiciones probables y confirmadas para la saurofauna boliviana. Kempffiana 1 (1): 101-128 Metcalf, Matthew; Alexander Marsh, Emerson Torres, Devon Graham, Charles Gunnels 2020. Herpetofauna of the Santa Cruz Forest Preserve in the Peruvian Amazon Basin. Herpetology Notes 13: 753-767 - get paper here O'shaughnessy,A.W.E. 1881. An account of the collection of lizards made by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador, and now in the British Museum, with descritions of the new species. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1881: 227-245 - get paper here Prudente, A.L.C.; F. Magalhães; A. Menks; J.F.M. Sarmento. 2013. Checklist of Lizards of the Juruti, state of Pará, Brazil. Check List 9 (1):42-50 - get paper here Ribeiro-Junior, M. A., Choueri, E., Lobos, S., Venegas, P., Torres-Carvajal, O. and Werneck, F. 2020. Eight in one: morphological and molecular analyses reveal cryptic diversity in Amazonian alopoglossid lizards (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190 (1): 227–270 - get paper here RIBEIRO-JÚNIOR, MARCO A. & SILVANA AMARAL 2017. Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. IV. Alopoglossidae, Gymnophthalmidae. Zootaxa 4269 (2): 151-196 - get paper here Ruibal, R. 1952. Revisionary studies of some South American Teiidae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 106: 475-529 (477?)-529. - get paper here Torres-Carvajal O, Pazmiño-Otamendi G, Salazar-Valenzuela D. 2019. Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich portal, with a dynamic checklist and photographic guides. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1): [General Section]: 209–229 (e178) - get paper here Werner,F. 1910. Über neue oder seltene Reptilien des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. ii. Eidechsen. Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. Anst., vol. 27 (1909), suppl. no. 2, 1910, pp. 1-46; reprinted: 1910, Mitteil. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 27: 205-) - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://zoologia.puce.edu.ec/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=625 https://bioweb.bio/faunaweb/reptiliaweb/FichaEspecie/Alopoglossus… http://www.ib.usp.br/~crinog/english/resultados.htm http://www.unb.br/ib/zoo/grcolli/guia/cocellifer.htm Google images

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