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Stenocercus santander TORRES-CARVAJAL, 2007

IUCN Red List - Stenocercus santander - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaTropiduridae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymStenocercus santander TORRES-CARVAJAL 2007
Stenocercus erythrogaster — AYALA 1986: 563 (part)
Stenocercus erythrogaster — CADLE 2001: 217 (part)
Stenocercus erythrogaster — HARVEY et al. 2004: 941 (part)
Stenocercus santander — TORRES-CARVAJAL 2007 
DistributionColombia (Santander)

Type locality: Colombia, Departamento Santander, Municipio Piedecuesta, Vereda Tres Esquinas, approximately 6°59’22’’N, 73°3’13’’W.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: UIS R 478, adult male, 23 Feb. 1999, Rances Caicedo. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Stenocercus santander differs from all other species of Stenocercus (except S. erythrogaster, S. huancabambae, and S. limitaris) in having keeled ventrals, strongly keeled and imbricate head scales, distinct parietals, interparietal, and post- parietals, strongly laterally compressed tail and prominent vertebral crest in adult males, distinct posthumeral mite pocket, nostrils medial to canthus, and postxiphisternal inscriptional ribs in contact medially (Torres-Carvajal, 2004). It differs from S. erythrogaster (character states in parentheses) in havi ng a more prominent, serrate vertebral crest in adult males that extends from posterior border of head onto less than half the length of tail (vertebral crest low, serrate only anteriorly), a distinct postfemoral mite pocket (postfemoral mite pocket absent), and in lacking a dark stripe extending anterodorsally from subocular region across eyelids (dark stripe present ). The new s peci es di f f ers f rom S. huancabambae (character states in parentheses) in having two canthals (one canthal) and in lacking dorsally projected angulate temporals
(two projected angulate temporals). Stenocercus santander is different from S. limitaris in color patterns (e.g., males of S. santander lack a distinct black mark on the ventral surface of neck, which is characteristic of S. limitaris); moreover, males of S. santander have a more prominent vertebral crest than males of S. limitaris. 
Comment 
Etymologynamed after the type locality. 
References
  • Ayala, S. C. 1986. Saurios de Colombia: Lista actualizada, y distribucion de ejemplares colombianos en los museos. Caldasia 15 (71-75): 555-575 - get paper here
  • Cadle, J. E. 2001. A new species of lizard related to Stenocercus caducus (Cope) (Squamata: Iguanidae from Peru and Bolivia, with a key to the ‘‘Ophryoessoides Group’’. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 157 (3): 183-222 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Daza-Pérez, Erika Patricia; Ruth Mariela Castillo Morales 2010. Aspectos de la ecología de Stenocercus santander en un Bosque Húmedo Montano Bajo de los Andes Orientales de Colombia. Herpetotropicos 6 (1-2): - get paper here
  • HARVEY, MICHAEL B.; GILSON A. RIVAS AND JESUS MANZANILLA 2004. Redescription of Stenocercus erythrogaster (Hallowell). Copeia 2004 (4): 940–944 - get paper here
  • Torres-Carvajal, O. 2007. New Andean Species of Stenocercus (Squamata: Iguania) from the Eastern Cordillera in Colombia. Copeia 2007 (1): 56–61 - get paper here
 
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