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Higher TaxaTropiduridae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Etheridge's Lava Lizard
Portuguese: Calango, Calango-de-Colar, Papa-Vento 
SynonymTropidurus etheridgei CEI 1982
Tropidurus hispidus — KOSLOWSKY 1898
Tropidurus hispidus — BERTONI 1914
Tropidurus hispidus — BERTONI 1939
Tropidurus torquatus hispidus — HELLMICH 1960
Tropidurus hispidus — TALBOT 1978
Tropidurus hispidus — TALBOT 1979
Tropidurus etheridgei — DIRKSEN & DE LA RIVA 1999
Tropidurus etheridgei — CACCIALI et al. 2016
Tropidurus etheridgei — CACCIALI & KÖHLER 2018
Tropidurus etheridgei — AVILA et al. 2021 
DistributionBolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, La Paz, Santa Cruz, Tarija), Argentina (Cordoba, Chaco, La Rioja, San Luis, Formosa, Corrientes, Córdoba), Brazil (Mato Grosso), Paraguay

Type locality: Argentina, Cordoba, Mina Claveros, 1200 m elevation, Lat -31.7500, Long -65.0833.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: KU 186101 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: RODRIGUES 1987: 171.
 
CommentSynonymy mostly after Cacciali & Köhler 2018.

Habitat: rocks, sand

Distribution: See Carvalho et al. 2018: 32 (Fig. 12) for a map.

Diet: a large percentage of the diet of this species (30-50%) consists of ants (Lucas et al. 2023). 
EtymologyNamed after Richard Emmett Etheridge (16 Sep 1929-14 Jan 2019), American herpetologist. See Espinoza & Queiroz for biographical details. 
References
  • AVILA, LUCIANO JAVIER; LORENA ELIZABETH MARTINEZ & MARIANA MORANDO 2013. Checklist of lizards and amphisbaenians of Argentina: an update. Zootaxa 3616 (3): 201–238 - get paper here
  • Avila, Luciano Javier; Martín Miguel Femenías, Cristian Hernán Fulvio Pérez, Mariana Morando 2021. Nuevas especies de Liolaemus para la herpetofauna de la provincia de La Rioja, Argentina. Cuadernos de Herpetología 35 (S1): 223-228
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • CACCIALI, PIER & GUNTHER KÖHLER 2018. Diversity of Tropidurus (Squamata: Tropiduridae) in Paraguay—an integrative taxonomic approach based on morphological and molecular genetic evidence. Zootaxa 4375 (4): 511–536 - get paper here
  • Cacciali, Pier; Norman J. Scott, Aida Luz Aquino Ortíz, Lee A. Fitzgerald, and Paul Smith 2016. The Reptiles of Paraguay: Literature, Distribution, and an Annotated Taxonomic Checklist. SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE MUSEUM OF SOUTHWESTERN BIOLOGY, NUMBER 11: 1–373 - get paper here
  • CARREIRA, S., M. MENEGHEL AND F. ACHAVAL 2005. Reptiles de Uruguay. DI.R.A.C., Facultad de Ciências Ed., Montevideo, 637 pp.
  • Carvalho, André L.G.; Luis Rolando Rivas, Ricardo Céspedes, and Miguel T. Rodrigues 2018. A New Collared Lizard (Tropidurus: Tropiduridae) Endemic to the Western Bolivian Andes and Its Implications for Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests. American Museum Novitates (3896): 1-56. - get paper here
  • CARVALHO, ANDRÉ LUIZ GOMES DE 2013. On the distribution and conservation of the South American lizard genus Tropidurus Wied-Neuwied, 1825 (Squamata: Tropiduridae). Zootaxa 3640 (1): 042–056 - get paper here
  • Cavalcanti, Lucas B Q; Gabriel C Costa, Guarino R Colli, Eric R Pianka, Laurie J Vitt, Daniel O Mesquita 2023. Myrmecophagy in lizards: evolutionary and ecological implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2023;, zlad175, - get paper here
  • Cei J M 1982. A new species of Tropidurus (Sauria, Iguanidae) from the arid Chacoan and western regions of Argentina. OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (No. 97) 1982: 1-10 - get paper here
  • Cei, J.M. 2003. SPECIFIC SUPRAOCULAR SCUTELLATION PATTERNS AS SIGNIFICANT DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTERS: A TAXONOMIC INTER- AND INTRAGENERIC "FINGER-PRINT" IN LACERTILIA. Facena 19: 129-135 - get paper here
  • Cruz, Félix B.;Silva, Santiago;Scrocchi, Gustavo J. 1999. Ecology of the lizard Tropidurus etheridgei (Squamata: Tropidurudae) from the dry Chaco of Salta, Argentina. Herpetological Natural History 6 (1): 23-31 [1998]
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  • Espinoza, Robert E. and Kevin de Queiroz 2008. Richard Emmett Etheridge. Copeia 2008, No. 3, 708–717 - get paper here
  • Frost, Darrel R., Miguel T. Rodrigues, Taran Grant, and Tom A. Titus 2001. Phylogenetics of the Lizard Genus Tropidurus (Squamata: Tropiduridae: Tropidurinae): Direct Optimization, Descriptive Efficiency, and Sensitivity Analysis of Congruence Between Molecular Data and Morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 21 (3): 352–371 - get paper here
  • Gonzales, Lucindo; Arturo Muñoz y Edson Cortez 2006. PRIMER REPORTE SOBRE LA HERPETOFAUNA DE LA RESERVA NATURAL “EL CORBALÁN”, TARIJA, BOLIVIA [FIRST REPORT ON THE HERPETOFAUNA OF “EL CORBALAN” NATURAL RESERVE, TARIJA, BOLIVIA]. Kempffiana 2 (1): 72-94 - get paper here
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  • PELEGRIN, N. & LEYNAUD, G. C. & BUCHER, E. H. 2006. Reptile fauna of the Chancaní Reserve (Arid Chaco, Argentina): species list and conservation status [Short Note]. Herpetozoa 19 (1/2): 85-86 - get paper here
  • Pérez-Iglesias, Juan Manuel; Jofré, Laura E.; Rueda, Marta Patricia 2017. Primeros registros de la herpetofauna en dos areas naturales protegidas de la provincia de Santiago del Estero (Argentina). Cuad. herpetol. 32 (1): 49-57 - get paper here
  • Rodrigues M T 1987. Sistematica, ecologia e zoogeografia dos Tropidurus do grupo torquatus ao sul do Rio Amazonas (Sauria, Iguanidae). Arquivos de Zoologia 31(3) 1987: 105-230 - get paper here
  • Rodrigues, M. T.; Kasahara S; Yonenaga-Yassuda Y 1988. Tropidurus psammonastes: Una nova especie do grupo torquatus com notas sobre seu cariotipo e distribuicao (Sauria, Iguanidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 36(26) 1988: 307-313 - get paper here
  • Uchôa LR, Delfim FR, Mesquita DO, Colli GR, Garda AA, Guedes TB 2022. Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Caatinga, northeastern Brazil: Detailed and updated overview. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 599-659 - get paper here
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