Eurolophosaurus divaricatus (RODRIGUES, 1986)

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Higher Taxa	Tropiduridae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Tropidurus divaricatus RODRIGUES 1986 Eurolophosaurus divaricatus — FROST et al. 2001 Eurolophosaurus divaricatus — GOMES et al. 2004 Eurolophosaurus divaricatus — PASSONI et al. 2008
Distribution	Brazil (Bahia) Type locality: Brasil: Bahia: Arraial do Paulista.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MZUSP 62733, male
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: “Tropidurus com escamas dorsais carenadas e imbricadas; crista dorsal pre- sente. Ventrais nitidamente carenadas e mucronadas. Ouvido completamente coberto par uma franja de escamas aciculares. Prega antehumeral e bolsa de acarianos do lado do pescoco, ausentes. Supraoculares muito largas, ocupando praticamente toda a area supraocular. Face ventral da coxa e aba anal do macho adulto sern pigmento. Fontanela esternal presente ou ausente.” [RODRIGUES 1986]
Comment	Passoni et al. (2008) suggested that “the population of E. divaricatus from the isolated sand dunes of Alagoado should be described as a new species.”
Etymology	Named after Latin divaricatus, stretch apart, spread out. (RODRIGUES 1986, Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024)
References	Frost, Darrel R., Miguel T. Rodrigues, Taran Grant, and Tom A. Titus 2001. Phylogenetics of the Lizard Genus Tropidurus (Squamata: Tropiduridae: Tropidurinae): Direct Optimization, Descriptive Efficiency, and Sensitivity Analysis of Congruence Between Molecular Data and Morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 21 (3): 352–371 - get paper here Gomes, Fernando R.; Tiana Kohlsdorf, Carlos A. Navas 2004. Death-feigning in Eurolophosaurus divaricatus: temperature and habituation effects. Amphibia-Reptilia 25 (3): 321-325 - get paper here Lambertz, M. 2010. Kommentierte Liste der squamaten Reptilien des Sanddünengebietes am mittleren Rio São Francisco (Bahia, Brasilien) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung endemischer Faunenelemente. Ophidia 4 (2): 2-17 - get paper here Lambertz, Markus; Tiana Kohlsdorf, Steven F. Perry,Robson Waldemar Ávila, Reinaldo José da Silva 2012. First assessment of the endoparasitic nematode fauna of four psammophilous species of Tropiduridae (Squamata: Iguania) endemic to north-eastern Brazil. Acta Herpetologica 7 (2): 315-323 - get paper here Passoni, José Carlos; Maria Lúcia Benozzati and Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues 2008. Phylogeny, species limits, and biogeography of the Brazilian lizards of the genus Eurolophosaurus (Squamata: Tropiduridae) as inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46 (2): 403-414 - get paper here Rodrigues M T 1986. Um novo Tropidurus com crista dorsal do Brasil, com comentarios sobre suas relacoes, distribuicao e origem (Sauria, Iguanidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 36(17) 1986: 171-179 - get paper here Rodrigues, M.T. 2003. Herpetofauna da Caatinga. In: I.R. Leal, M. Tabarelli & J.M.C. Silva (eds.). Ecologia e conservação da Caatinga, pp. 181-236. Editora Universitária, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil. Uchôa LR, Delfim FR, Mesquita DO, Colli GR, Garda AA, Guedes TB 2022. Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Caatinga, northeastern Brazil: Detailed and updated overview. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 599-659 - get paper here
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