Alopoglossus festae (PERACCA, 1896)
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Alopoglossus festae
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| Higher Taxa | Alopoglossidae, Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Peracca's Largescale Lizard |
| Synonym | Diastemalepis festae PERACCA 1896: 2 Ptychoglossus festae — PERACCA 1896 Ptychoglossus festae — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 244 Ptychoglossus festae — HARRIS 1994: 242 Ptychoglossus festae — KÖHLER 2000: 104 Alopoglossus festae — HERNÁNDEZ-MORALES et al. 2020 Ptychoglossus festae — BARRIO-AMORÓS et al. 2023 |
| Distribution | N Colombia, E Panama Type locality: Río Cianati, Darién, Panama. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MRSN (= MSNTO) R228, male |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Ptychoglossus festae has a moderately long body (adpressed limbs overlap by 1-4 dorsal scale lengths), flat snout, flat head scales, large prefrontals, four supraoculars, loreal in contact with supralabial row, few large temporals (maximum 16), exceptionally broad scales in both first and second postparietal scale rows, strongly folded sides of trunk, strongly keeled and obtuse to mucronate dorsal scales, 30-31 transverse dorsal scale rows, all marginal preanals paired, and rectangular infracaudals. Ptychoglossus myersi and P. plicatus can be distinguished from P. festae by their possession of: blunt ridges on some head scales, small loreals that do not contact the labial row, many small temporals (minimum 16), no widened postparietals, no lateral fold and pointed infracaudals. The wide postparietals and mucronate dorsals in adult P. festae are unlike any of the other Ptychoglossus species that border its geographic range. (Harris 1994) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 4140 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. |
| Etymology | Named after Dr. Enrico Festa (1868-1939), an Italian zoologist. He visited Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria (1893) and collected in Panama and Ecuador (1895-1898). He worked for Museo e Instituto di Zoologia Sistematica dell'Universita di Torino (1899-1923) as Deputy Assistant Professor (1899), retiring as Honorary Vice Director (Beolens et al. 2011: 89). |
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