Anadia bogotensis (PETERS, 1863)

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Higher Taxa	Gymnophthalmidae (Cercosaurinae), Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Bogota Anadia
Synonym	Ecpleopus (Xestosaurus) bogotensis PETERS 1863: 217 Anadia bogotensis — BOULENGER 1885: 400 Anadia bogotensis — DONOSO-BARROS 1968 Anadia bogotensis — BAUER et al. 1995: 57 Anadia bogotensis — MEDINA-RANGEL 2013
Distribution	Colombia (Cundinamarca, Boyacá) Type locality: Sta. Fé de Bogotá” [Cundinamarca, Colombia]
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: ZMB, RMNH
Diagnosis
Comment	Distribution: Burt and Burt (1930) report a specimen from Chama River (Merida) under the wrong name of bitaeniata (fide DONOSO-BARROS 1968). Not in Caldas fide Jerez & Calderón-Espinosa 2014. Type species: Ecpleopus (Xestosaurus) bogotensis PETERS 1863 is the type species of the genus Xestosaurus PETERS 1862, now a synonym of Anadia GRAY 1845.
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
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 Bauer, A.M. and R. Günther 1994. An annotated type catalogue of the teiid and microteiid lizards in the Zoological Museum, Berlin (Reptilia: Squamata: Teiidae and Gymnophthalmidae). Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 70:267-280 - get paper here Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. 1995. The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 pp. Calderón-Espinosa, Martha L.; Adriana Jerez and Guido F. Medina-Rangel 2018. Living in the Extremes: The Thermal Ecology of Communal Nests of the Highland Andean Lizard Anadia bogotensis (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae). Current Herpetology Aug 2018, Vol. 37, No. 2: 158-171. - get paper here Donoso-Barros, R. 1968. The lizards of Venezuela (checklist and key). Carib. J. Sci. 8 (3-4): 105-122 Dunn, Emmett R. 1944. Herpetology of the Bogota area. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exacta, Fisicas y Naturales 6: 68-81 Jerez, Adriana; Bonilla-Garzón, Andrea; Castellanos Montilla, David Samuel 2020. Estados de desarrollo en Anadia bogotensis: aportes a la comprensión de la evolución del plan corporal en Gymnophthalmoidea (Squamata). Cuad. herp. 34 (2): - get paper here Jerez, Adriana; Martha L. Calderón-Espinosa 2014. Anadia bogotensis (Peters 1862). Catálogo de Anfibios y Reptiles de Colombia 2 (1): 30-35 - 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 Medina-Rangel, Guido F. 2013. Anadia bogotensis (Bogota anadia lizard) nesting. Herpetological Review 44 (2): 312-313 - get paper here Mendoza R., J.S. & Rodriguez-Barbosa, C.A. 2017. Anadia bogotensis (Bogota Anadia) Communal nesting and ant invasion. Herpetological Review 48 (3): 632-633. - 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 Peters, W. 1862. Über Cercosaura und die mit dieser Gattung verwandten Eidechsen aus Südamerika. Abh. Berlin Akad. 1862: 165-225 Peterson, J. A. & Bezy, Robert L. 1985. The microstructure and evolution of scale surfaces in xantusiid lizards. Herpetologica 41 (3): 298-324. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List http://www.seh-herpetology.org/images/atlas/pdf/squamata/anabog.pdf Google images

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