Stenocercus rhodomelas (BOULENGER, 1899)

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Higher Taxa	Tropiduridae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Red-black Whorltail Iguana
Synonym	Liocephalus rhodomelas BOULENGER 1899: 455 Ophryoessoides rhodomelas — ETHERIDGE 1966: 88 Ophryoessoides rhodomelas — PETERS et al. 1970 Stenocercus rhodomelas — FRITTS 1974 Stenocercus rhodomelas — TORRES-CARVAJAL 2000: 29 Stenocercus rhodomelas — TORRES-CARVAJAL 2007
Distribution	S Ecuador (Azuay, Loja), elevation 730-2100 m. Type locality: Oña, Ecuador [Provincia Azuay].
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946.8.29.77-80 (4)
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: TORRES-CARVAJAL 2007.
Comment	Sympatric with S. simonsii in Azuay, and possibly sympatric with S. festae in the Saraguro basin. Belongs to the clade Boreomegalepis (fide TORRES-CARVAJAL 2006).
Etymology	Named after Greek rhodon (ῥόδον), rose + Greek melas (μέλας), black. [“...with a median black patch followed by a pink one...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024)
References	Boulenger, George A. 1899. Descriptions of new reptiles and batrachians collected by Mr. P.O. Simons in the Andes of Ecuador. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 4 (24): 454-457 - 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 Etheridge, Richard E. 1966. The systematic relationships of West Indian and South American lizards referred to the iguanid genus Leiocephalus. Copeia 1966 (1): 79-91 - 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 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
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.reptilesofecuador.com/stenocercus.html https://bioweb.bio/faunaweb/reptiliaweb/FichaEspecie/Stenocercus… Google images

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