Pholidobolus affinis (PETERS, 1863)

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Higher Taxa	Gymnophthalmidae (Cercosaurinae), Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Peters' Pholiodobolus
Synonym	Ecpleopus (Aspidolaemus) affinis PETERS 1863: 199 Prionodactylus ocellifer WERNER 1901: 596 Prionodactylus ocellifer — WERNER 1916: 307 Ecpleopus affinis — BOULENGER 1885: 402 Aspidolaemus affinis — UZZELL 1969 Euspondylus ocellifer — VANZOLINI 1986 (in PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA) Pholidobolus affinis — BAUER et al. 1995: 57 Pholidobolus affinis — TORRES-CARVAJAL & MAFLA-ENDARA 2013
Distribution	Ecuador (Pichincha) Type locality: “ohne Angabe eines betimmten Fundorts” [i.e. not given].
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ZSM 664/0
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Montanucci 1973: 31
Comment	The type of Prionodactylus ocellifer seems to be lost (BAUER & GÜNTHER 1994).
References	Bauer, A.M. and R. Günther 1994. An annotated type catalogue of the teiid and microteiid lizards in the Zoological Museum, Berlin (Reptilia: Squamata: Teiidae and Gymnophthalmidae). Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 70:267-280 - get paper here Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. 1995. The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 pp. Hillis, D. M.; Simmons, J. E. 1986. Dynamic change of a zone of parapatry between two species of Pholidobolus (Sauria: Gymnophthalmidae). Journal of Herpetology 20 (1): 85-87 - get paper here Hurtado-Gómez, Juan P.; Juan C. Arredondo, Pedro M. Sales-Nunes and Juan M. Daza 2018. A New Species of Pholidobolus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Paramo Ecosystem in the Northern Andes of Colombia. South American Journal of Herpetology 13 (3): 271–286 - get paper here Montanucci, R.R. 1973. Systematics and Evolution of the Andean Lizard Genus Pholidobolus (Sauria: Teiidae). Misc. Publ. Univ. Kans. Mus. Nat. Hist. 59: 1-52 - get paper here Peters, W. 1862. Über Cercosaura und die mit dieser Gattung verwandten Eidechsen aus Südamerika. Abh. Berlin Akad. 1862: 165-225 Reeder, T. W. 1996. A new species of Pholidobolus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Huancabamba depression of northern Peru. Herpetologica 52 (2): 282-289. - 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 Torres-Carvajal O, Venegas PJ, Lobos SE, Mafla-Endara P, Sales-Nunes PM. 2014. A new species of Pholidobolus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Andes of southern Ecuador. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 8 (1) [Special Section]: 76–88 - get paper here Torres-Carvajal, Omar; Paola Mafla-Endara 2013. Evolutionary history of Andean Pholidobolus and Macropholidus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) lizards. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68 (2): 212–217 - get paper here Venegas PJ, Echevarría LY, Lobos SE, Sales-Nunes PM, and Torres-Carvajal O. 2016. A new species of Andean microteiid lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae: Pholidobolus) from Peru, with comments on P. vertebralis. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 10 (1) [Special Section]: 21–33 (e121) - get paper here Werner, F. 1901. Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Ecuador und Neu-Guinea. Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 51: 593-614 - get paper here Werner,F. 1916. Bemerkungen über einige niedere Wirbeltiere der Anden von Kolumbien mit Beschreibungen neuer Arten. Zool. Anz. 47: 301-311 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://zoologia.puce.edu.ec/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=18511 https://bioweb.bio/faunaweb/reptiliaweb/FichaEspecie/Pholidobolus%20affinis http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/512x768/0000_0000/0208/1369.jpeg http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/512x768/0000_0000/0208/1370.jpeg Google images

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