Enyalioides altotambo TORRES-CARVAJAL, VENEGAS & DE QUEIROZ, 2015
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Enyalioides altotambo
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| Higher Taxa | Hoplocercidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | English: Alto Tambo woodlizard Spanish: lagartija de palo de Alto Tambo |
| Synonym | Enyalioides altotambo TORRES-CARVAJAL, VENEGAS & DE QUEIROZ 2015 Enyalioides oshaughnessyi — TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2011: 23 (part) |
| Distribution | Ecuador (Esmeraldas) Type locality: Alto Tambo, 5 km on road to Placer, Bosque Integral Otokiki, 0.90600°N; -78.60600°W (DD), 620 m elevation, Provincia Esmeraldas, Ecuador |
| Reproduction | oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: QCAZ 8073 (Fig. 1), an adult male, collected on 2 May 2010 by I.G. Tapia, D. Almeida- Reinoso, J.M. Guayasamin and L.A. Coloma. Paratype. ECUADOR: Provincia Esmeraldas: QCAZ 6671, adult female, Alto Tambo, Balthazar river, 0.90000°N; -78.61667°W, 645 m, collected on 5 November 2005 by F. Ayala-Varela and I.G. Tapia. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Enyalioides altotambo differs from other species of Enyalioides, except for E. oshaughnessyi, in having dorsal scales that are both smooth and homogeneous in size. It can be distinguished from E. oshaughnessyi (character states in parentheses) by the following characters: iris brown in both sexes (iris bright red in both sexes); scales on lateral edge of skull roof just posterior to superciliaries strongly projected (mod- erately projected); adults of both sexes with light green spots on dorsum (if present, spots turquoise or blue); adult males with a black medial patch on gular region not extending dorsally to form an antehumeral bar (black patch under gular fold extend- ing dorsally to form a short antehumeral bar); scales on flanks almost homogenous in size (flank scales heterogeneous in size, with a few enlarged, circular, keeled scales); pale postympanic stripe on lateral aspect of neck in both sexes (pale postympanic spot in both sexes), posterior surface of thighs without enlarged scales (scattered enlarged scales), tail length/total length 0.57–0.60 (0.59–0.62). |
| Comment | Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). |
| Etymology | The specific epithet is a noun in apposition and refers to Alto Tambo, Provincia Esmeraldas, Ecuador, a village on the Ibarra-San Lorenzo road where Enyalioides altotambo was discovered. |
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