Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Cercosaura
Genus of lizards From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Cercosaura is a genus of lizards in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The genus is endemic to South America.
Remove ads
Taxonomy
Summarize
Perspective
The genus Cercosaura includes 18 species according to studies that transfer species from the two genera Pantodactylus and Prionodactylus to this genus.[1]
Species
The genus Cercosaura contains the following recognized species:[2]
- Cercosaura anomala Müller. 1923 – anomalous cercosaura
- Cercosaura anordosquama Sturaro, Rodrigues, Colli, Knowles & Avila-Pires, 2018
- Cercosaura argulus W. Peters, 1863 – elegant eyed lizard, white-lipped prionodactylus
- Cercosaura bassleri Ruibal, 1952 – ocellated tegu
- Cercosaura doanae Echevarría, Barboza & Venegas, 2015
- Cercosaura eigenmanni (Griffin, 1917) – Eigenmann's prionodactylus
- Cercosaura hypnoides Doan & Lamar, 2012
- Cercosaura manicata O'Shaughnessy, 1881 – slender prionodactylus
- Cercosaura nigroventris (Gorzula & Señaris, 1999)
- Cercosaura ocellata Wagler, 1830 – ocellated tegu
- Cercosaura olivacea Gray, 1845 – olive tegu
- Cercosaura oshaughnessyi (Boulenger, 1885) – white-striped eyed lizard
- Cercosaura pacha Mamani, Chaparro, Correa, Alarcón, Salas, & Catenazzi. 2020
- Cercosaura parkeri (Ruibal, 1952) – Parker's many-fingered teiid
- Cercosaura phelpsorum (Lancini, 1968)
- Cercosaura quadrilineata Boettger, 1876 – lined many-fingered teiid
- Cercosaura schreibersii Wiegmann, 1834 – Schreibers' many-fingered teiid, long-tailed little lizard
- Cercosaura steyeri (Tedesco, 1998)
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Cercosaura.
Remove ads
References
Further reading
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads