Tupinambis teguixin (LINNAEUS, 1758)
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Tupinambis teguixin
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| Higher Taxa | Teiidae, Sauria (lizards) |
| Subspecies | Tupinambis teguixin sebastiani MÜLLER 1968 Tupinambis teguixin Teguixin (LINNAEUS 1758) |
| Common Names | E: Black Tegu, Golden Tegu G: Schw.-Weiss oder Bänderteju |
| Synonym | Lacerta Teguixin LINNAEUS 1758: 208 Seps marmoratus LAURENTI 1768: 59 Laacerta tupinambis LACÉPÈDE 1788 Lacerta monitor — SHAW & NODDER 1790: plate 21 Lacerta monitor LATREILLE 1801a: 220 Tupinambis monitor DAUDIN 1802a: 20 Monitor meriani BLAINVILLE 1816 Monitor (Tutor) americanus GOLDFUSS 1820: 168 Teius monitor — WIED 1824 Tupinambis nigropunctatus SPIX 1825: 18 Monitor teguixin FITZINGER 1826 Podinema teguixin WAGLER 1830 Lacerta Teguixin — CUVIER 1831: 113 Teius teguixin - GRAY 1838: 276 Salvator nigropunctatus - DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 90 Teius nigropunctatus - GRAY 1845: 16 Teius teguexim - BATES 1864: 233 Tejus teguexin [sic] — DOLLO 1884: 68 Tejus tequexin [sic] — COPE 1885: 189 Tupinambis teguixin — BOULENGER 1885: 335 Tupinambis nigropunctatus — BOULENGER 1885: 337 Tupinambis tegnixin [sic] - MÜLLER 1912: 24 Tupinambis teguixin — PETERS et al. 1970: 272 Tupinambis teguixin nigropunctatus - MÜLLER 1971: 24 Tupinambis teguixin - PRESCH 1973: 741 (part?) Tupinambis nigropunctatus — HOOGMOED & LESCURE 1975 Tupinambis teguixin — DUELLMAN 1978: 223 Tupinambis teguixin - CEI 1993 Tupinambis teguixin — DIRKSEN & DE LA RIVA 1999 Tupinambis teguixin — MCNISH 2011 Tupinambis teguixin — HARVEY et al. 2012 |
| Distribution | Panama, Colombia, Venezuela (Cojedes), Isla Margarita, Ecuador, Brazil (Amazonas, Acre, Amapa, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Para, Rondonia, Roraima, Rio Grande do Sul, Bahia), Peru, Trinidad, N Argentina (Buenos Aires, La Pampa, San Luis, Córdoba), Bolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, Pando, Santa Cruz), Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana Type locality: “Indiis” Map legend:  - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it. |
| Types | Lectotype: UUZM 13 (Presch, 1973) |
| Comment | Type species: Tupinambis monitor DAUDIN 1802 is the the type species of the genus Tupinambis DAUDIN 1802. Tupinambis is also the type species of the subfamily Tupinambinae ESTES et al. 1988. Distribution: not in Uruguay (M. Hoogmoed, pers. comm., 19 Feb 2013). Diagnosis (subfamily): Of characters we examined, the Tupinambinae are the only living teiids with complete caudal annuli alternating with annuli divided dorsally and a gap of granular scales separating femoral from abdominal pores. They lack circumorbital scales or have 1–3/1–3 circumorbitals restricted to the posterior border of the fourth supraocular. Other characters likely to be diagnostic of the Tupinambinae but assessed for relatively few Teiinae include synapomorphies identified by Presch (1974a) and Sullivan and Estes (1997): short interclavicular median process, second ceratobranchial absent, and postfrontal not in contact with jugal. Diagnosis (genus): Tupinambis can be distinguished from all other teiids by the combination of smooth dorsals, one loreal, a gap of granular scales separating femoral from abdominal pores, and a cylindrical tail with complete annuli alternating with annuli divided on the dorsal and lateral sides of the tail. Etymology (genus): The generic name Tupinambis is a masculine Latin noun in the nominative singular apparently referring to the Tupinambá indigenous tribe, one of several Tupi ethnic groups that inhabited Brazil at the time of the conquest. Nomenclature: The name T. teguixin was for a long time applied for the species here named T. merianae, while the species here under discussion was called T. nigropunctatus. For a detailed discussion of nomenclature see Avila-Pires (1995). Synonyms partly from CEI 1993. |
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