Alopoglossus
Genus of lizards
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Alopoglossus is a genus of lizards in the monogeneric family Alopoglossidae.[2][3] The genus is distributed from Costa Rica in Central America to northern South America.[2]
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| Alopoglossus vallensis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Superfamily: | Gymnophthalmoidea |
| Family: | Alopoglossidae Goicoechea et al., 2016[1] |
| Genus: | Alopoglossus Boulenger, 1885 |
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32, see text. | |
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Species
The genus Alopoglossus contains the following 32 valid species:[3]
- Alopoglossus amazonius Ruthven, 1924 – Amazonanian teiid
- Alopoglossus andeanus (Ruibal, 1952)
- Alopoglossus angulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) – northern teiid
- Alopoglossus atriventris Duellman, 1973 – keel-bellied shade lizard
- Alopoglossus avilapiresae Ribeiro-Júnior, Choueri, Lobos, Venegas, Torres-Carvajal & Werneck, 2020
- Alopoglossus bicolor (F. Werner, 1916) – Werner's largescale lizard
- Alopoglossus bilineatus Boulenger, 1890
- Alopoglossus brevifrontalis Boulenger, 1912 – Boulenger's largescale lizard
- Alopoglossus buckleyi (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) – Buckley's teiid
- Alopoglossus carinicaudatus (Cope, 1876) – northern teiid
- Alopoglossus collii Ribeiro-Júnior, Choueri, Lobos, Venegas, Torres-Carvajal & Werneck, 2020
- Alopoglossus copii Boulenger, 1885 – drab shade lizard
- Alopoglossus danieli Harris, 1994 – Daniel's largescale lizard
- Alopoglossus embera Peloso & Morales, 2017
- Alopoglossus eurylepis Harris & Rueda, 1985 – largescale lizard
- Alopoglossus festae (Peracca, 1896)
- Alopoglossus gansorum Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck & Meiri, 2021
- Alopoglossus gorgonae Harris, 1994
- Alopoglossus grandisquamatus Rueda, 1985 – common largescale lizard
- Alopoglossus harrisi Hernández-Morales, Sturaro, Sales-Nunes, Lotzkat & Peloso, 2020
- Alopoglossus indigenorum Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck & Meiri, 2021
- Alopoglossus kugleri Roux, 1927 – Kugler's largescale lizard
- Alopoglossus lehmanni Ayala & Harris, 1984
- Alopoglossus meloi Ribeiro-Júnior, 2018
- Alopoglossus myersi Harris, 1994
- Alopoglossus plicatus (Taylor, 1949) – Taylor's largescale lizard
- Alopoglossus romaleos Harris, 1994
- Alopoglossus stenolepis (Boulenger, 1908)
- Alopoglossus tapajosensis Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck & Meiri, 2021
- Alopoglossus theodorusi Ribeiro-Júnior, Meiri & Fouquet, 2020
- Alopoglossus vallensis Harris, 1994
- Alopoglossus viridiceps Torres-Carvajal & Lobos, 2014[4] – green-headed shade lizard
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Alopoglossus.