Anadia rhombifera (GÜNTHER, 1859)

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Higher Taxa	Gymnophthalmidae (Cercosaurinae), Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Rhombifer Anadia
Synonym	Cercosuarus rhombifer GÜNTHER 1859 Ecpleopus (euspondylus) rhombifer — PETERS 1862 Leposoma rhombiferum COPE 1885: 98 Anadia rhombifera BOULENGER 1885: 399 Anadia rhombifera — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 41 Anadia rhombifera — OFTEDAL 1974 Anadia rhombifera — BETANCOURT et al. 2018
Distribution	Ecuador, Colombia (Antioquia, Boyacá, Santander, Quindío) Type locality: Western Ecuador
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.9.1.4
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Anadia rhombifera se caracteriza por la combinación de los siguientes caracteres: (1) talla mediana y cuerpo esbelto (LRC máximo ♀: 69.4 mm; ♂: 69.8 mm); (2) escamas dorsales en 44–50 hileras transversales; (3) escamas ventrales en 29–32 hileras transversales; (4) escamas gulares en 11–13 hileras transversales; (5) escamas postparietales cinco (Figura 1); (6) pregulares entre último par de geneiales dos (Figura 1); (7) poros femorales 8–15 en machos y 0–2 en hembras (una hembra con 7); (8) ocelos ausentes en machos y hembras (solo un macho presentó 4–5 ocelos) (Figura 11); (9) dorso café o grisáceo uniforme (♂ y ♀) o con bloques oscuros irregulares (♀) (Figuras 7 y 9); (10) vientre claro, a menudo con flecos cafés dispersos hacia los lados; (11) hemipene ligeramente alargado, bilobulado y globoso, con papilas pequeñas ubicadas medialmente en el lado sulcado de cada lóbulo, y con 12 flecos en vista lateral (Figura 8). [from Betancourt et al. 2018: 96] 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 845 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Synonymy that of Oftedal (1974).
Etymology	Named after Greek rhombos (ῥόμβος), rhombus + Greek fero (φέρω), bring, bear, carry. [“...with a vertebral band, composed of rhombic brown spots, beginning on the middle of the trunk...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024)
References	AMÉZQUITA, A., DAZA, J. M., CONTRERAS, L. A. B., OREJUELA, C., & BARRIENTOS, L. S. & MAZARIEGOS H., L. A. 2022. One more and one less: a new species of large bromelicolous lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Anadia) from the Andean cloud forests of northwestern Colombia and the phylogenetic status of Anadia antioquensis. Zootaxa 5150 (2): 217-238 - get paper here Arteaga AF, Bustamante-Enríquez LM and Guayasamin JM 2013. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Mindo. http://www.tropicalherping.com - get paper here Arteaga, A.; Bustamante, L.; Vieira, J. 2024. Reptiles of Ecuador. Khamai Foundation & Tropical Herping, 1073 pp. - get paper here Betancourt, Raquel; Carolina Reyes-Puig, Simón E. Lobos, Mario H. Yánez- Muñoz & Omar Torres-Carvajal 2018. Sistemática de los saurios Anadia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) de Ecuador: límite de especies, distribución geográfica y descripción de una especie nueva. Neotropical Biodiversity, 4:1, 82-101, DOI: 10.1080/23766808.2018.1487694 - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1886. Catalogue of the species of batrachians and reptiles contained in a collection made at Pebas, Upper Amazon, by John Hauxwell. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 23: 94-103 [1885] - get paper here Garcia-Cobos, Daniela; Diego Gomez-Sanchez, Juan P. Ramirez 2018. New records of Anadia rhombifera (GÜNTHER, 1859), in the Cordillera Central and Cordillera Oriental of Colombia. Herpetozoa 31 (1/2): 91 - 94 - get paper here Günther,A. 1859. Second list of cold-blooded vertebrata collected by Mr. Fraser in the Andes of Western Ecuador. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1859: 402-422 - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1929. A new Anadia from Colombia with remarks on other members of the genus. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 42: 99-102 - get paper here Oftedal,O.T. 1974. A revision of the genus Anadia (Sauria, Teiidae). Arquivos de Zoologia, Sao Paulo 25: 203-265 - get paper here Páez, V.P. et al. 2002. Guía de campo de algunas especies de anfibios y reptiles de Antioquia. Universidad de Antioquia, - get paper here Torres-Carvajal O, Pazmiño-Otamendi G, Salazar-Valenzuela D. 2019. Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich portal, with a dynamic checklist and photographic guides. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1): [General Section]: 209–229 (e178) - get paper here Vanegas-Guerrero, Jhonattan 2015. Reptilia, Sauria, Gymnophthalmidae, Anadia rhombifera (Günther, 1859): Distribution extension and first records from Quindío department, Colombia. Check List 11 (1): 1512 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://zoologia.puce.edu.ec/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=23644 https://bioweb.bio/faunaweb/reptiliaweb/FichaEspecie/Anadia%20rhombifera Google images

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