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Basiliscus galeritus DUMÉRIL, 1851

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Higher TaxaCorytophanidae, Iguania, Sauria (lizards) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesWestern Basilisk 
SynonymBasiliscus Galeritus DUMÉRIL 1851: 61
Ptenosaura Seemanni GRAY 1852: 438
Craneosaura seemanni — RICHARDS (fide BOULENGER 1885)
Basiliscus seemanni — GÜNTHER 1860: 234
Basiliscus galeritus — BOULENGER 1885: 110
Basiliscus galeritus — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 84
Basiliscus galeritus — LANG 1989
Basiliscus galeritus — VIEIRA et al. 2005 
DistributionColombia (in rainforest, forested and areas related to small rivers in Choco Biogeographic Región, Cauca river valley in Antioquia, Caldas, Quindio; Magdalena River Valley in forested wet areas through Tolima), Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica

Type locality: “N.-Grenade”, which means Colombia. Map legend:
TDWG region - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.

NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
 
TypesSyntypes (2): MHNP 2130-31 
Comment 
References
  • 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
  • Cortés Gómez, Angela María; Anyelet Valencia Aguilar, Diana Marcela Torres Domínguez, Lina Marí 2010. Guía de los anfibios y reptiles. Área en conservación de la microcuenca Quebrada Pericos. [Valle de Cauca, Colombia] Corporación Autónoma Regional del Valle del Cauca, Santiago de Cali: CVC, 37 pp. - get paper here
  • Duméril, A.M.C. & A. H. A. DUMÉRIL 1851. Catalogue méthodique de la collection des reptiles du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Gide et Baudry/Roret, Paris, 224 pp.
  • Gray, J. E. 1852. Description of several new genera of reptiles, principally from the collection of H.M.S. Herald. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 10: 437-440 - get paper here
  • Günther,A. 1860. Third list of the col-blooded vertebrata collected by Mr. Fraser in Ecuador. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1860: 233-240 - get paper here
  • Lang,M. 1989. Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Patterns of Basiliscine Iguanians (Reptilia: Squamata: "Iguanidae"). Bonner Zool. Monograph. 28: 1-172
  • Maturana, H. R. 1962. A study of the species of the genus Basiliscus. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 128: 1-34 - get paper here
  • Peters, James A. & Donoso-Barros, Roberto 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part II. Lizards and Amphisbaenians. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 293 pp. - get paper here
  • Vieira, G. H. C., Colli, G. R. & Báo, S. N. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships of corytophanid lizards (Iguania, Squamata, Reptilia) based on partitioned and total evidence analyses of sperm morphology, gross morphology, and DNA data. Zoologica Scripta 34(6): 605-625.
  • Wirth, Michael 2012. Basilisken. Spektakuläre Vertreter der Leguane Terraria Elaphe 2012 (2): 14-32 - get paper here
 
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