Enyalioides
Genus of lizards
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Enyalioides is a genus of lizards in the family Hoplocercidae.[1][2] The genus is native to the northern part of South America and Panama.[3]
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| Enyalioides rubrigularis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Hoplocercidae |
| Genus: | Enyalioides Boulenger, 1885 |
They are also referred to as woodlizards,[3] although individual species are also called dwarf iguanas.[2]
Species
The following 19 species are recognized as being valid.[1]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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 | Enyalioides altotambo Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015 | tropical northwestern Andes in Ecuador | |
-from-northwestern-South-America-zookeys-494-107-g005_(cropped).jpg) | Enyalioides anisolepis Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015 | Amazonian slopes of the Andes range in southern Ecuador and northern Peru. | |
 | Enyalioides annularis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) | ringed manticore, ringed spinytail iguana | Ecuador,southern Colombia |
 | Enyalioides azulae Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 2013[3] | Peru | |
 | Enyalioides binzayedi Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 2013[3] | Peru | |
_(20557901709).jpg) | Enyalioides cofanorum Duellman, 1973 | Cofán wood lizard, Duellman's dwarf iguana | Colombia and Ecuador |
_(10.3897-evolsyst.5.69227)_Plate_4_(cropped).jpg) | Enyalioides feiruzae Venegas, Chávez, García-Ayachi, Duran & Torres-Carvajal, 2021 | Río Huallaga Basin, Peru | |
 | Enyalioides groi Dunn, 1933 | Gro’s manticores, Dunn's spinytail lizard, Dunn's spinytail iguana | Panama, northwestern Colombia |
 | Enyalioides heterolepis (Bocourt, 1874) | Bocourt's dwarf iguana | Colombia, Ecuador, Panama |
 | Enyalioides laticeps (Guichenot, 1855) | Amazon wood lizard | Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Peru |
| Enyalioides microlepis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) | small-scaled woodlizard, tiny-scale dwarf iguana | Ecuador (east of the Andes), southern Colombia, northern Peru | |
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Enyalioides oshaughnessyi (Boulenger, 1881) | red-eyed woodlizard, O'Shaughnessy's dwarf iguana | northern Ecuador, southern Colombia |
 | Enyalioides palpebralis (Boulenger, 1883) | horned wood lizard | northern Bolivia, western Brazil, and eastern Peru |
| Enyalioides peruvianus Köhler, 2003 | Cenepa manticore | northern Peru | |
 | Enyalioides praestabilis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) | blue-spotted wood lizard | Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |
 | Enyalioides rubrigularis Torres-Carvajal, De Queiroz & Etheridge, 2009[4] | red-throated wood lizard | Ecuador |
_Plate_4_(cropped).jpg) | Enyalioides rudolfarndti Venegas, Duran, Landauro & Lujan, 2011 | central Peru | |
| Enyalioides sophiarothschildae Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015 | Cordillera Central in northeastern Peru | ||
| Enyalioides touzeti Torres-Carvajal, Almendáriz, Valencia, Yánez-Muñoz & Reyes, 2008[5] | Touzet's woodlizard | southwestern Ecuador (Azuay Province), northwestern Peru | |
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Enyalioides.
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