Alopoglossus lehmanni AYALA & HARRIS, 1984

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Higher Taxa	Alopoglossidae, Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Alopoglossus lehmanni AYALA & HARRIS 1984 Alopoglossus lehmanni — KÖHLER et al. 2012 Alopoglossus lehmanni — HERNÁNDEZ-MORALES et al. 2020
Distribution	W Colombia (incl. Valle del Cauca) Type locality: Colombia, Valle del Cauca, road from Buenaventura to San Isidro, km 22, elevation 30 m.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: FMNH 165199, a male
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Scales on sides of neck large, nearly conical; gulars in transverse irregular rows; dorsals hexagonal with parallel lateral edges, in transverse rows; scales on flanks smaller than dorsals and irregular; ventrals keeled and hexagonal [KÖHLER et al. 2012]
Comment	Distribution: see map in KÖHLER et al. 2012. Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024.
Etymology	Named after Professor Frederico Carlos Lehmann-Valencia (1914-1974), a biologist and conservationist who founded the Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Santa Teresita de Cali, Colombia (1963).
References	Ayala S C; Harris D M 1984. A new microteiid lizard (Alopoglossus) from the Pacific rainforest of Columbia. Herpetologica 40 (2): 154-158 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Castro-Herrera, F. & Vargas-Salinas, F. 2008. Anfibios y reptiles en el departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Biota Colombiana 9 (2): 251 - 277 - 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 Köhler, Gunther; Hans-Helmut Diethert, and Milan Veselý 2012. A Contribution To the Knowledge of the Lizard Genus Alopoglossus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae). Herpetological Monographs 26 (1): 173-188. - get paper here Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here Ribeiro-Junior, M. A., Choueri, E., Lobos, S., Venegas, P., Torres-Carvajal, O. and Werneck, F. 2020. Eight in one: morphological and molecular analyses reveal cryptic diversity in Amazonian alopoglossid lizards (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190 (1): 227–270 - get paper here Valencia-Zuleta A, Jaramillo-Martínez AF, Echeverry-Bocanegra A, Viáfara-Vega R, Hernández-Córdoba O, Cardona-Botero VE, Gutiérrez-Zúñiga J, Castro-Herrera F. 2014. Conservation status of the herpetofauna, protected areas, and current problems in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 8 (2): 1–18 (e87) - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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