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Potamites trachodus (UZZELL, 1966)

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Higher TaxaGymnophthalmidae (Cercosaurinae), Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymNeusticurus strangulatus trachodus UZZELL 1966
Neusticurus strangulatus trachodus — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970
Neusticurus strangulatus trachodus — SHERBROOKE & COLE 1972
Potamites strangulatus trachodus — DOAN & CASTOE 2005 (by implication)
Potamites (Neusticurus) trachodus — TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2016
Potamites trachodus — CHÁVEZ et al. 2021 
DistributionPeru (Huánuco, Andes of central Peru, elevation 750-1600 m)

Type locality: Divisoria (= Cordillera Azul, Huánuco, Peru, 1300-1600 m.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: FMNH 55992 (given as CNMH), adult male, collected by Jose M. Schunke, September 8, 1947; paratypes: FMNH, MCZ 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Greek trachodus (τραχώδης), of rough nature. [“...The name trachodus is from the Greek τραχώδης, 'of rough nature.’...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) 
References
  • Avila-Pires, Teresa C. S. and Laurie J. Vitt. 1998. A new species of Neusticurus (Reptilia: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Rio Juruá, Acre, Brazil. Herpetologica 54 (2):235-245. - get paper here
  • Castoe, T.A.; Doan, T.M. & Parkinson, C.L. 2004. Data partitions and complex models in Bayesian analysis: the phylogeny of Gymnophthalmid lizards. Systematic Biology 53 (3): 448-469 - get paper here
  • Chávez, G., Malqui, J., & Catenazzi, A. 2021. A new riparian Andean Potamites (Reptilia, Squamata, Gymnophtalmidae) from El Sira Mountains, central Peru, with comments on P. ecpleopus Cope 1875, and on the taxonomy and biogeography of Potamites. European Journal of Taxonomy, 760: 136-159 - get paper here
  • Doan, T. M. & Castoe, T.A. 2005. Phylogenetic taxonomy of the Cercosaurini (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), with new genera for species of Neusticurus and Proctoporus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 143: 405–416. - get paper here
  • Fang, José M.; Juan D. Vásquez-Restrepo & Juan M. Daza 2020. Filling the gaps in a highly diverse Neotropical lizard lineage: a new and endemic genus of Cercosaurinae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) with the description of two new species from the Northern Andes of Colombia. Systematics and Biodiversity, DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2020.1783714 - get paper here
  • Fugler, Charles M. and A. Brad Walls. 1978. The lizards of the Upano Valley of southeastern ecuador. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 54 (3): 120-121 - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2000. Neusticurus strangulatus (COPE, 1868). Sauria 22 (3): 1-2 - get paper here
  • Sherbrooke, W.C. & Cole, C.J. 1972. Chromosomes of the South American Teiid Lizards Neusticurus ecpleopus Cope and Neusticurus strangulatus trachodus Uzzell. Copeia 1972 (4): 886-889 - 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
  • Torres-Carvajal, Omar; Simón E. Lobos, Pablo J. Venegas, Germán Chávez, Vanessa Aguirre-Peñafiel, Daniel Zurita, Lourdes Y. Echevarría 2016. Phylogeny and biogeography of the most diverse clade of South American gymnophthalmid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 99: 63-75, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.006
  • Uzzell, Thomas M. 1966. Teid Lizards of the genus Neusticurus (Reptilia, Sauria). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 132 (5): 279-327 - get paper here
  • Venegas, Pablo J.; Giuseppe Gagliardi-Urrutia y Marco Odicio 2014. ANFIBIOS Y REPTILES. In: Pitman et al. 2014, Peru: Cordillera Escalera-Loreto. The Field Museum, Chicago - get paper here
  • Whithworth, A. & Beirne, C. 2011. Reptiles of the Yachana Reserve. Global Vision International, 130 pp. - get paper here
 
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