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Cercosaura oshaughnessyi (BOULENGER, 1885)

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Higher TaxaGymnophthalmidae (Cercosaurinae), Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: White-Striped Eyed Lizard
Portuguese: Lagarto-da-Terra 
SynonymPrionodactylus oshaughnessyi BOULENGER 1885: 392
Euspondylus oshaughnessyi — CUNHA 1961: 146
Prionodactylus oshaughnessyi — VANZOLINI 1972: 107 (?)
Prionodactylus oshaughnessyi — DUELLMAN 1991
Prionodactylus oshaughnessyi — AVILA-PIRES 1995: 468
Prionodactylus oshaughnessyi — PELLEGRINO et al. 2001
Prionodactylus oshaughnessyi — PIANKA & VITT 2003: 203
Cercosaura oshaughnessyi — TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2015
Cercosaura oshaughnessyi — ECHEVARRIA et al. 2015
Cercosaura oshaugnessyi — RIBEIRO-JUNIOR & AMARAL 2016 (in error)
Cercosaura oshaughnessyi — STURARO et al. 2017 
DistributionN Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil (W Amazonas, Amapa, Acre), French Guiana

Type locality: Canelos and Pallatanga, Ecuador.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.8.31.18-20, 80.12.8.17 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Frontonasal divided. Loreal in contact with supralabials. Scales around midbody 31-45. Males with 17-28 pores in total, females with 8-15 or none; one pore in preanal position, separated from its opposite number by two ventrals in a transverse row. Subdigital lamellae not or only slightly tuberculate, 16-22 under fourth toe. A sharp delimitation on sides of head, on temporal region usually half to one scale above supralabials, between a brown dorsal surface and a white ventral surface; lower flanks with a white stripe delimited ventrally by a dark narrow band (Avila-Pires 1995).


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CommentSynonymy: P. oshaughnessyi has been synonymized with P. argulus by UZZELL (1973) and DOAN 2003. However, some authors continued to treat P. oshaughnessyi as valid species, e.g. Pellegrino et al. (2001), Avila-Pires et al. 2009. Torres-Carvajal et al. 2015 found argulus and oshaughnessyi as (weakly) separated genetically and monophyletic although their sampling was somewhat biased (with only 2 specimens of argulus) and all specimens of oshaughnessyi being from a relatively small geographic area. We accept oshaughnessyi given that it was also considered as distinct by Sturaro et al. 2017. 
EtymologyPrionodactylus oshaughnessyi was named after A. W. E. O’Shaughnessy, herpetologist of the British Museum.  
References
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