Stenocercus formosus (TSCHUDI, 1845)
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Higher Taxa | Tropiduridae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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Common Names | E: Formosa Whorltail Iguana |
Synonym | Scelotrema formosum TSCHUDI 1845 Liocephalus formosus BOULENGER 1880: 43 Liocephalus formosus — BOULENGER 1885: 168 Stenocercus seydi ANDERSSON 1908 Leiocephalus formosus — BURT & BURT 1933 Ophryoessoides formosus — ETHERIDGE 1966: 88 Ophryoessoides formosus — PETERS et al. 1970: 214 Stenocercus formosus — FRITTS 1974 Stenocercus formosus — TORRES-CARVAJAL 2004 |
Distribution | Peru (Junin)
Type locality: La Merced, 1000 m elevation, Peru; Lectotype from “mountains of central Peru, Río Tulumayo, Junín, Peru”.
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Lectotype: MHNN 2266 (Neuchatel, fide ORTIZ 1989) Holotype: MWNH 473 [Stenocercus seydi] |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis in TORRES-CARVAJAL 2007. |
Comment | Distribution: see partial map (Peru) in Venegas et al. 2020: 563. Does not occur in Ecuador as stated by previous authors (e.g. PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970).
Belongs to the clade Anatomegalepis (fide TORRES-CARVAJAL 2006). |
References |
- 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
- Boulenger, George A. 1880. Reptiles et Batraciens recueillis par M. Emile de Ville dans les Andes de l'équateur. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 5: 41-48 - 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
- Köhler, J. & Güsten, R. 2007. Herpetological type specimens in the natural history collections of the museums in Darmstadt and Wiesbaden, Germany. Spixiana 30 (2): 275-288 - get paper here
- 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
- 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
- VENEGAS, PABLO J.; LOURDES Y. ECHEVARRÍA, LUIS A. GARCÍA-AYACHI, CAROLL Z. LANDAURO 2020. Two new sympatric species of Stenocercus (Squamata: Iguania) from the inter-Andean valley of the Mantaro River, Peru. Zootaxa 4858 (4): 555–575 - get paper here
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