| Higher Taxa | Tropiduridae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Keeled Whorltail Iguana
S: Guagsa subtropical |
| Synonym | Stenocercus varius BOULENGER 1885: 134
Stenocercus varius — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 257
Stenocercus varius — TORRES-CARVAJAL 2000: 31
Stenocercus varius — TORRES-CARVAJAL 2007 |
| Distribution | Ecuador (Cotopaxi, Pichincha, elevation 1460-2200 m.; Chiriboga, 5000 ft. on western slopes)
Type locality: unknown (fide PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970). Restricted to Tandapi, 1460 m., Provincia Pichincha, Ecuador, by FRITTS 1974.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: BMNH 71.4.16.53 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: TORRES-CARVAJAL 2007
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| Comment | Belongs to the clades Scelotrema and Microphractus (fide TORRES-CARVAJAL 2006). |
| Etymology | Named after Latin varius, colored; party colored, variegated. [“...Upper surfaces dark bluish-grey, marbled with black ; tail with black cross bars ; lower surfaces bluish-grey ; belly a little lighter...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) |
| References |
- Arteaga AF, Bustamante-Enríquez LM and Guayasamin JM 2013. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Mindo. http://www.tropicalherping.com - get paper here
- Arteaga, A.; Bustamante, L.; Vieira, J. 2024. Reptiles of Ecuador. Khamai Foundation & Tropical Herping, 1073 pp. - get paper here
- Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - 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
- Carrera, C. et al. 2009. Guía de Campo de los Pequeños Vertebrados del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (DMQ). Publicación Miscelánea N° 5. Serie de Publicaciones del Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales (MECN) – Fondo Ambiental del MDMQ. 1-89 pp. Imprenta Nuevo Arte. Quito-Ecuador.
- Dávila, Mateo; Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia 2017. Use of human-made buildings by Stenocercus lizards (Iguania, Tropiduridae). Herpetology Notes 10: 517-519 - 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
- Gallardo, Jose M. 1971. Algunos ideas sobre la zoogeografia de los saurios patagonicos. Revista Museo Argentino De Ciencias Naturales Bernadino Rivadavia 1 (4): 135-146
- 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 2000. Ecuadorian lizards of the genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Tropiduridae). Scientific papers of the Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, (15): 1-38 - 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
- VENEGAS, PABLO J.; VILMA DURAN & KARLA GARCIA-BURNEO 2013. A new species of arboreal iguanid lizard, genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Iguania), from central Peru. Zootaxa 3609 (3): 291–301 - get paper here
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