Cercosaura oshaughnessyi (BOULENGER, 1885)
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Cercosaura oshaughnessyi
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| Higher Taxa | Gymnophthalmidae (Cercosaurinae), Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: White-Striped Eyed Lizard Portuguese: Lagarto-da-Terra |
| Synonym | Prionodactylus oshaughnessyi BOULENGER 1885: 392 Euspondylus oshaughnessyi — CUNHA 1961: 146 Prionodactylus oshaughnessyi — VANZOLINI 1972: 107 (?) Prionodactylus oshaughnessyi — DUELLMAN 1991 Prionodactylus oshaughnessyi — AVILA-PIRES 1995: 468 Prionodactylus oshaughnessyi — PELLEGRINO et al. 2001 Prionodactylus oshaughnessyi — PIANKA & VITT 2003: 203 Cercosaura oshaughnessyi — TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2015 Cercosaura oshaughnessyi — ECHEVARRIA et al. 2015 Cercosaura oshaugnessyi — RIBEIRO-JUNIOR & AMARAL 2016 (in error) Cercosaura oshaughnessyi — STURARO et al. 2017 |
| Distribution | N Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil (W Amazonas, Amapa, Acre), French Guiana Type locality: Canelos and Pallatanga, Ecuador. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Syntypes: BMNH 1946.8.31.18-20, 80.12.8.17 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Frontonasal divided. Loreal in contact with supralabials. Scales around midbody 31-45. Males with 17-28 pores in total, females with 8-15 or none; one pore in preanal position, separated from its opposite number by two ventrals in a transverse row. Subdigital lamellae not or only slightly tuberculate, 16-22 under fourth toe. A sharp delimitation on sides of head, on temporal region usually half to one scale above supralabials, between a brown dorsal surface and a white ventral surface; lower flanks with a white stripe delimited ventrally by a dark narrow band (Avila-Pires 1995). |
| Comment | Synonymy: P. oshaughnessyi has been synonymized with P. argulus by UZZELL (1973) and DOAN 2003. However, some authors continued to treat P. oshaughnessyi as valid species, e.g. Pellegrino et al. (2001), Avila-Pires et al. 2009. Torres-Carvajal et al. 2015 found argulus and oshaughnessyi as (weakly) separated genetically and monophyletic although their sampling was somewhat biased (with only 2 specimens of argulus) and all specimens of oshaughnessyi being from a relatively small geographic area. We accept oshaughnessyi given that it was also considered as distinct by Sturaro et al. 2017. |
| Etymology | Prionodactylus oshaughnessyi was named after A. W. E. O’Shaughnessy, herpetologist of the British Museum. |
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