Stenocercus praeornatus FRITTS, 1972

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Higher Taxa	Tropiduridae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Greater Ornate Whorltail Iguana
Synonym	Stenocercus praeornatus FRITTS 1972: 16 Stenocercus praeornatus — TORRES-CARVAJAL 2004
Distribution	N/C Peru (high elevations of Amazonian drainage) Type locality: Peru, Junin, Comas, 3320 m
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: KU 134231
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: TORRES-CARVAJAL 2007. Additional details (3468 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024.
Etymology	Named after the Latin prae meaning front or anterior part and ornatus meaning ornate; it refers to the ornate coloration of the head and shoulders in contrast to that of the remainder of the body.
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. 1972. New species of lizards of the genus Stenocercus from Perú (Sauria: Iguanidae). Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (10): 1-21 - get paper here Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here Torres-Carvajal, O. 2004. The abdominal skeleton of Tropidurid lizards (Squamata: Tropiduridae). Herpetologica 60 (1): 75-83 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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