Stenocercus crassicaudatus (TSCHUDI, 1845)
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| Higher Taxa | Tropiduridae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Spiny Whorltail Iguana |
| Synonym | Scelotrema crassicaudatum TSCHUDI 1845: 155
Urocentrum meyeri WERNER 1901: 4
Stenocercus crassicaudatus — ROUX 1907: 299
Stenocercus ervingi STEJNEGER 1913: 545
Stenocercus crassicaudatus — TORRES-CARVAJAL 2004 |
| Distribution | SE Peru (Cusco)
Type locality: Peru [Urubamba, Peru fide TSCHUDI 1846: 28]
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Lectotype: MHNN 2267 (Neuchatel, fide ORTIZ 1989)
Holotype: USNM 49550 [Stenocercus ervingi]
Holotype: Museum Dresden, given as “D 1764 M. Dr.” from Lima [Urocentrum meyeri] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: TORRES-CARVAJAL 2007.
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| Comment | Synonymy: Stenocercus torquatus BOULENGER 1885 has been removed from the synonymy of S. crassicaudatus by TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2005.
Belongs to the clades Scelotrema and Microphractus (fide TORRES-CARVAJAL 2006).
Distribution: FRITTS (1974) reports C. crassicaudatus from Bolivia (Cochabamba Province) but TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2005 assume that this possibly represented an undescribed species. Probably also in Bolivia (fide LANGSTROTH 2005) |
| Etymology | Named after its thick tail (Latin crassus, -a = thick, dense, and Latin “cauda = tail).
Uracentrum meyeri was named after A. B. Meyer. |
| References |
- Carranza, S.; E. N. Arnold & F. Amat 2004. DNA phylogeny of Lacerta (Iberolacerta) and other lacertine lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae): did competition cause long-term mountain restriction? Systematics and Biodiversity 2 (1): 57-77 - get paper here
- Fritts, Thomas H. 1974. A multivariate evolutionary analysis of the Andean Iguanid lizards of the genus Stenocercus. San Diego Society of Natural History Memoir 7: 1-89 - get paper here
- Langstroth, R.P. 2005. Adiciones probables y confirmadas para la saurofauna boliviana. Kempffiana 1 (1): 101-128
- Ortiz J C 1989. Catalogue des types du musée d’histoire naturelle de Neuchatel III. Sauriens. Bulletin de la Societe neuchateloise des Sciences naturelles 112: 47-64 - get paper here
- Roux,J. 1907. Revision de quelques espèces de reptiles et amphibiens du Péru’ descrites par Tschudi en 1844-1846. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 15: 293-303 - get paper here
- Stejneger, Leonhard 1913. Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911.—Batrachians and reptiles. Proc. US. Natl. Mus. 45 (1992): 541-547 - get paper here
- Torres-Carvajal, O. 2004. The abdominal skeleton of Tropidurid lizards (Squamata: Tropiduridae). Herpetologica 60 (1): 75-83 - get paper here
- Torres-Carvajal, Omar; James A. Schulte II and John E. Cadle 2006. Phylogenetic relationships of South American lizards of the genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Iguania): A new approach using a general mixture model for gene sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39 (1): 171-185 - get paper here
- Tschudi,J. J. von 1845. Reptilium conspectum quae in republica Peruana reperiuntur er pleraque observata vel collecta sunt in itenere. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 11 (1): 150-170 [reprint 1968, SSAR; sometimes cited as being published in 1846]. - get paper here
- VENEGAS, PABLO J.; LOURDES Y. ECHEVARRIA & SILVANA C. ALVAREZ 2014. A new species of spiny-tailed iguanid lizard (Iguania: Stenocercus) from northwestern Peru. Zootaxa 3753 (1): 047–058 - get paper here
- Werner, FRANZ 1901. Reptilien und Batrachier aus Peru und Bolivien. Abhandl. Ber. Zool. Anthrop. Mus. Dresden, 9 (2): 1-14 [1900] - get paper here
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