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Enyalioides heterolepis (BOCOURT, 1874)

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Higher TaxaHoplocercidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Bocourt's Dwarf Iguana
S: Iguana enana 
SynonymEnyalus heterolepis BOCOURT 1874: 1
Enyalius heterolepis — GÜNTHER 1885: 56
Enyalioides heterolepis — BOULENGER 1885: 114
Enyalioides insulae BARBOUR 1905: 100
Enyalioides Mocquardi DESPAX 1911
Enyalioides heterolepis — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 114
Enyalioides heterolepis — KÖHLER 2000: 81
Enyalioides heterolepis — TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2011 
DistributionNW Ecuador, Colombia (incl. Valle del Cauca, Chocó), Panama (Coclé etc.)

Type locality: Veragua, Panama.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: MNHN-RA 4067
Lectotype: MNHN 4067 (= MHNP) (Guibe, 1954) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Enyalioides can be distinguished from Hoplocercus by having a laterally compressed or rounded (rather than depressed) tail that is longer than the body (i.e., tail length > SVL). Enyalioides also differs from Hoplocercus and Morunasaurus in having pointed, conical scales on dorsal surface of head and gular region; raised scales posterior to the superciliaries; keeled dorsal scales; a continuous vertebral crest formed by large, trihedral or conical scales (except E. palpebralis, in which most specimens have a nuchal gap in the vertebral crest); and one or more enlarged pretympanic scales (except E. heterolepis). Enyalioides can be further distinguished from Morunasaurus by having a parietal eye [from TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2011]. ETHERIDGE 1969 presents a comparison of Enyalius and Enyalioides.


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CommentSynonymy that of PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970.

Type species: Enyalus heterolepis BOCOURT 1874 is the type species of the genus Enyalioides BOULENGER 1885.

Key: TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2015: 126 and Venegas et al. 2024 provide keys to all species of the Hoplocercinae, including the species of Enyalioides.

Phylogenetics: TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2023 produced a phylogeny of the whole (sub-) family hoplocerinae, including Enyalioides. 
EtymologyThe species appears to be named after the heterogenous scales (Greek = “lepis” = scale or bark) on the dorsum.

The genus name is derived from the Greek Enyalius = the name of a war god and of a taxon previously confused with this one + -oides = like, resembling. 
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