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Holcosus niceforoi (DUNN, 1943)

IUCN Red List - Holcosus niceforoi - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaTeiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymAmeiva festiva niceforoi DUNN 1943: 1
Ameiva festiva niceforoi — PETERS et al. 1970: 22
Ameiva niceforoi — ECHTERNACHT 1970
Holcosus niceforoi — HARVEY et al. 2012 
DistributionColombia (Tolima)

Type locality: Sasaima, 75 km NW of Bogotá, Colombia, elevation 1200 m.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ANSP 24300 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (n=5). A form of festiva, identical with it in size, in proportions, and in scalation, but remarkably different in markings. A wide, light. straight-edged, dorsal band (involving 30-34 granules in crosswise count) extends forwards to involve all the parietals and fades out on the head. (Dunn 1943)


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EtymologyNamed after the collector of the type, Hermano Niceforó Maria. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Dunn, E.R. 1943. A new race of Ameiva festiva from Colombia. Notulae Naturae (Philadelphia) 126: 1-2
  • Echternacht, Arthur C. 1970. Taxonomic and ecological notes on some Middle and South American lizards of the genus Ameiva (Teiidae). Breviora (354): 1-9 - get paper here
  • HARVEY, MICHAEL B.; GABRIEL N. UGUETO & RONALD L. GUTBERLET, Jr. 2012. Review of Teiid Morphology with a Revised Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Teiidae (Lepidosauria: Squamata). Zootaxa 3459: 1–156 - get paper here
 
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