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Stenocercus huancabambae CADLE, 1991

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Higher TaxaTropiduridae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymStenocercus huancabambae CADLE 1991
Stenocercus huancabambae — TORRES-CARVAJAL 2004
Stenocercus huancabambae — VENEGAS et al. 2020 
DistributionN Peru

Type locality: San José (Bagua Grande), Dep. Amazonas, Perú  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 165319 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: TORRES-CARVAJAL 2007.


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CommentColor plate in Reptilia (Münster) 8 (44): 92. 
EtymologyNamed after the Huancabamba area, an east–west depression through the Andes of N Peru and S Ecuador  [“...The name huancabambae, a noun in genitive case, is derived from the geological term "Huancabamba Deflection" used to describe the general area from which all specimens of Stenocercus huancabambae have been collected. ...”]. 
References
  • Cadle J E. 1991. Systematics of lizards of the genus Stenocercus (Iguania Tropiduridae) from northern Peru. New species and comments on relationships and distribution patterns. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 143: 1-96. (erratum published in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 144 (1993): 345). - 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
  • KOCH, CLAUDIA; PABLO J. VENEGAS, ROY SANTA CRUZ, WOLFGANG BÖHME 2018. Annotated checklist and key to the species of amphibians and reptiles inhabiting the northern Peruvian dry forest along the Andean valley of the Marañón River and its tributaries. Zootaxa 4385 (1): 001–101 - get paper here
  • Torres-Carvajal, O. 2004. The abdominal skeleton of Tropidurid lizards (Squamata: Tropiduridae). Herpetologica 60 (1): 75-83 - get paper here
  • Venegas PJ, García-Ayachi LA, Chávez-Arribasplata JC, Chávez G, Wong I, García-Bravo A 2020. Four new species of Stenocercus Duméril & Bibron, 1837 (Squamata, Iguania) from the Department of Amazonas in northeastern Peru. Evolutionary Systematics 4(2): 79-108 - get paper here
 
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