Alopoglossus plicatus TAYLOR, 1949

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Higher Taxa	Alopoglossidae, Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Taylor's Largescale Lizard
Synonym	Alopoglossus plicatus TAYLOR 1949 Ptychoglossus plicatus — RUIBAL 1952 Ptychoglossus plicatus — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 245 Ptychoglossus plicatus — KÖHLER 2000: 104 Ptycoglossus plicatus — SANTOS-BARRER et al. 2008 (in error) Ptychoglossus plicatus — SAVAGE & BOLAÑOS 2009 Ptychoglossus plicatus — ROVITO et al. 2015 Alopoglossus plicatus — HERNÁNDEZ-MORALES et al. 2020
Distribution	Costa Rica (La Lola, Limón), Panama, NW Colombia Type locality: Morehouse Finca, 5 mi southwest of Turrialba, Cartago, Costa Rica.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: KU 23800
Diagnosis
Comment	Distribution: Not in Brazil fide COSTA & BERNILS 2015. Diet: a large percentage of the diet of this species (10-80%) consists of ants (Lucas et al. 2023).
Etymology	Named after Latin plicatus, folded. [“...Each side of tongue decorated with a regular series of plicae that run forward to medial line, forming 24 chevrons...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024)
References	Catenazzi, A., and P. J. Venegas 2012. Anfibios y reptiles/Amphibians and reptiles. in: N. Pitman, E. Ruelas Inzunza, D. Alvira, C. Vriesendorp, D. K. Moskovits, Á. del Campo, T. Wachter, D. F. Stotz, S. Noningo Sesén, E. Tuesta Cerrón, y/and R. C. Smith, eds. Perú: Cerros de Kampankis. R The Field Museum, Chicago, pp. 106–117, 260–271, 348–365 - get paper here Cavalcanti, Lucas B Q; Gabriel C Costa, Guarino R Colli, Eric R Pianka, Laurie J Vitt, Daniel O Mesquita 2023. Myrmecophagy in lizards: evolutionary and ecological implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2023;, zlad175, - get paper here Goldberg, Stephen R. 2008. Note on Reproduction of two species of microteiid lizards, Leposoma southi and Ptychoglossus plicatus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae). Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 44 (2): 42-45 - get paper here Harris,D.M. 1994. Review of the teiid lizard genus Ptychoglossus. Herpetological Monographs 8: 226-275 - get paper here Hernández-Morales, C., Sturaro, M.J., Nunes, P.M.S., Lotzkat, S. and Peloso, P.L. 2020. A species‐level total evidence phylogeny of the microteiid lizard family Alopoglossidae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea). Cladistics - get paper here Herrera, Yuliana Christopher and Fernández-Marín, Hermógenes 2016. Ptychoglossus plicatus (Taylor's Large-scaled Lizard) Nesting. Herpetological Review 47 (4): 673-674 - get paper here Köhler, G. 2000. Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd 1: Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 158 pp. Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp. Köhler, Gunther, Joseph Vargas, Johannes J. Köhler and Milan Vesel´y. 2013. Noteworthy distributional records of amphibians and reptiles from Costa Rica. Herpetological Review 44 (2): 280-283 - get paper here Llanqui IB, Salas CY, Oblitas MP 2019. A preliminary checklist of amphibians and reptiles from the vicinity of La Nube Biological Station, Bahuaja-Sonene National Park, Peru. Check List 15 (5): 773–796 - get paper here Mendenhall, Chase D.; Luke O. Frishkoff, Georgina Santos-Barrera, Jesús Pacheco, Eyobed Mesfun, Fernando Mendoza Quijano, Paul R. Ehrlich, Gerardo Ceballos, Gretchen C. Daily, and Robert M. Pringle 2014. Countryside biogeography of Neotropical reptiles and amphibians. Ecology 95: 856–870 - get paper here Peters, James A. & Donoso-Barros, Roberto 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part II. Lizards and Amphisbaenians. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 293 pp. - get paper here Rabosky, Daniel L.; Rudolf von May, Michael C. Grundler and Alison R. Davis Rabosky 2019. The Western Amazonian Richness Gradient for Squamate Reptiles: Are There Really Fewer Snakes and Lizards in Southwestern Amazonian Lowlands? Diversity 11: 199; doi:10.3390/d11100199 - get paper here Ribeiro-Júnior, Marco A. & Silvana Amaral 2016. Diversity, distribution, and conservation of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) in the Brazilian Amazonia. Neotropical Biodiversity, 2:1, 195-421 - get paper here Rovito, Sean Michael; Thomas James Devitt, Susan Cameron Devitt 2015. First survey of the amphibians and reptiles of the Nectandra Cloud Forest Reserve, Alajuela, Costa Rica. Check List 11 (2): 1570 - get paper here Sánchez-Pacheco, S. J., J. V. Rueda-Almonacid, J. R. Caicedo-Portilla & S. M. Souza 2016. First record of Leposoma caparensis from Colombia, with confirmation for the presence of Ptychoglossus myersi and P. plicatus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae). Salamandra 52 (1): 53-57 - get paper here Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Jesus Pacheco, Fernando Mendoza-Quijano, Federico Bolaños,<br>Gerardo Cháves , Gretchen C. Daily, Paul R. Ehrlich & Gerardo Ceballos 2008. Diversity, natural history and conservation of amphibians and reptiles from the San Vito Region, southwestern Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 56 (2): 755-778 - get paper here Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205] Scott, N.J. 1976. The abundance and diversity of the herpetofaunas of tropical forest litter. Biotropica 8 (1): 41-58 - get paper here Taylor, E. H. 1956. A review of the lizards of Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 38 (part 1): 3-322 - get paper here Taylor,E.H. 1949. Two new teiid lizards from Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 33 (5): 271-278. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/edge/Field_guide_lizards.htm Google images

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