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Cercosaura manicata O’SHAUGHNESSY, 1881

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Higher TaxaGymnophthalmidae (Cercosaurinae), Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesCercosaura manicata manicata O’SHAUGHNESSY 1881
Cercosaura manicata bolivianus (WERNER 1899) 
Common NamesE: Slender Cercosaura 
SynonymCercosaura (Prionodactylus) manicata O’SHAUGHNESSY 1881: 231
Prionodactylus manicatus — BOULENGER 1885: 393
Prionodactylus manicatus — WERNER 1916: 307
Prionodactylus manicatus — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 235
Prionodactylus manicatus — DUELLMAN 1978: 221
Prionodactylus manicatus — DIRKSEN & DE LA RIVA 1999
Cercosaura manicata — DOAN 2003
Cercosaura manicatus — CATENAZZI et al. 2013
Cercosaura manicata manicata — ECHEVARRIA et al. 2015

Cercosaura manicata bolivianus (WERNER 1899)
Prionodactylus bolivianus WERNER 1899: 481
Prionodactylus Ockendeni BOULENGER 1907: 486
Prionodactylus bolivianus — WERNER 1916: 307
Prionodactylus ockendeni — WERNER 1916: 307
Cercosaura manicata boliviana — DOAN 2003
Cercosaura manicata boliviana — ECHEVARRIA et al. 2015 
DistributionEcuador, Peru, Bolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz), Colombia (Nariño:San Juan de Pasto; Chachaui; Funes; Cauca: Bolivar above 1500 m [pers. comm., F. Castro, 22 Jan 2019])

Elevation: 300–1800 m (DOAN & LAMAR 2012).

Type locality: Canelos and Pallatanga, Ecuador.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.8.2.1 (80.1.2.88), 1946.8.31.15-17 (80.12.8.5-7) 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy and subspecies after PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970.

Subspecies: Cercosaura manicata bolivianus is not closely related to Cercosaura but rather a sister clade of Potamites. Mamani et al. 2020 propose to maintain the name “Cercosaura manicata boliviana” as incertae sedis (unknown status). 
References
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1907. Descriptions of new lizards in the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 19: 486-489. - get paper here
  • CATENAZZI, A., LEHR, E. & VON MAY, R. 2013. The amphibians and reptiles of Manu National Park and its buffer zone, Amazon basin and eastern slopes of the Andes, Peru. Biota Neotrop. 13(4): 269-283
  • Dirksen, L. & De la Riva, I. 1999. The lizards and amphisbaenians of Bolivia (Reptilia, Squamata): checklist, localities, and bibliography. Graellsia 55: 199-215 - get paper here
  • Doan, T.M. 2003. A new phylogenetic classification for the gymnophthalmid genera Cercosaura, Pantodactylus and Prionodactylus (Reptilia: Squamata). Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 137 (1): 101-115 - get paper here
  • Duellman, W. E. 1978. The biology of an equatorial herpetofauna in Amazonian Ecuador. Misc. Publ. Univ. Kans. Mus. Nat. Hist. 65: 1-352 - get paper here
  • Echevarría LY, Barboza AC, Venegas PJ. 2015. A new species of montane gymnophthalmid lizard, genus Cercosaura (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), from the Amazon slope of northern Peru. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 9(1): 34–44 (e109) - get paper here
  • Fugler, C. M. 1989. Lista de Saurios. Ecol. Bolivia 13: 57-75.
  • Mamani, Luis, Juan C Chaparro, Claudio Correa, Consuelo Alarcón, Cinthya Y Salas, and Alessandro Catenazzi. 2020. A New Species of Andean Gymnophthalmid Lizard (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Peruvian Andes, and Resolution of Some Taxonomic Problems. Diversity 12 (9): 361 - get paper here
  • O'shaughnessy,A.W.E. 1881. An account of the collection of lizards made by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador, and now in the British Museum, with descritions of the new species. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1881: 227-245 - 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
  • Werner, F. 1899. Beschreibung neuer Reptilien und Batrachier. Zool. Anz. 22: 479-484 - get paper here
  • Werner,F. 1916. Bemerkungen über einige niedere Wirbeltiere der Anden von Kolumbien mit Beschreibungen neuer Arten. Zool. Anz. 47: 301-311 - get paper here
 
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