Stenocercus erythrogaster (HALLOWELL, 1856)

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Higher Taxa	Tropiduridae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Brachysaurus erythrogaster HALLOWELL 1856: 232 Liocephalus erythrogaster — BOULENGER 1885: 168 Ophryoessoides erythrogaster — ETHERIDGE 1966: 88 Ophryoessoides erythrogaster — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 213 Ophryoessoides erythrogaster — FRITTS 1974 Stenocercus erythrogaster — TORRES-CARVAJAL 2004
Distribution	Colombia (Sierra do Santa Marta, N Andes), Venezuela Type locality: New Grenada
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ANSP 8607
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Comment	Has been erroneously reported from Ecuador (fide TORRES-CARVAJAL 2000).
Etymology	Named after Greek erythro-, meaning red, and Greek gaster = belly, respectively, after the color of the chin and throat and the sides of abdomen, which, according to Hallowell “are of a beautiful pink red color.” This color is not mentioned by Harvey et al. 2004 though, so it may be only a mating color.
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 Carranza, S.; E. N. Arnold & F. Amat 2004. DNA phylogeny of Lacerta (Iberolacerta) and other lacertine lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae): did competition cause long-term mountain restriction? Systematics and Biodiversity 2 (1): 57-77 - get paper here Etheridge, Richard E. 1966. The systematic relationships of West Indian and South American lizards referred to the iguanid genus Leiocephalus. Copeia 1966 (1): 79-91 - get paper here Fritts, Thomas H. 1974. A multivariate evolutionary analysis of the Andean Iguanid lizards of the genus Stenocercus. San Diego Society of Natural History Memoir 7: 1-89 - get paper here Hallowell, E. 1856. Notes on reptiles in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 8: 221-238 - get paper here HARVEY, MICHAEL B.; GILSON A. RIVAS AND JESUS MANZANILLA 2004. Redescription of Stenocercus erythrogaster (Hallowell). Copeia 2004 (4): 940–944 - get paper here Medina-Rangel, Guido Fabián 2013. CAMBIO EstACIOnAl En El UsO DE lOs RECURsOs DE lA COMUnIDAD DE REptIlEs En El COMplEJO CEnAgOsO DE ZApAtOsA, DEpARtAMEntO DEl CEsAR (Colombia). Caldasia 35 (1): 103-122 - get paper here RIVAS, GILSON A.; CÉSAR R. MOLINA, GABRIEL N. UGUETO, TITO R. BARROS, CÉSAR L. BAR- RIO-AMORÓS & PHILIPPE J. R. KOK 2012. Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist. Zootaxa 3211: 1–64 - get paper here ROJAS, ANDRÉS; SARA ESTRADA, ANDRÉS CAMILO MONTES-CORREA & JUAN DAVID JIMÉNEZ BOLAÑO. 2023. Death-feigning in the Red-bellied Ground Lizard, Stenocercus erythrogaster (Hallowell 1856) (Squamata: Tropiduridae), in Colombia. Reptiles & Amphibians 30(1): e20083–e20083. - get paper here Torres-Carvajal, O. 2004. The abdominal skeleton of Tropidurid lizards (Squamata: Tropiduridae). Herpetologica 60 (1): 75-83 - get paper here Torres-Carvajal, O. 2007. New Andean Species of Stenocercus (Squamata: Iguania) from the Eastern Cordillera in Colombia. Copeia 2007 (1): 56–61 - get paper here Torres-Carvajal, Omar 2000. Ecuadorian lizards of the genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Tropiduridae). Scientific papers of the Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, (15): 1-38 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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