Colobosauroides

Colobosauroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria or
Lacertilia
Family: Gymnophthalmidae
Subfamily: Ecpleopinae
Genus: Colobosauroides
da Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991[1][2]

Colobosauroides is a small genus in the family of spectacled lizards.[1][2] Colobosauroides is endemic to Brazil.

Geographic range

Species in the genus Colobosauroides are found in northeastern Brazil, in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Ceará.[2]

Species

The genus Colobosauroides includes only the following two species:[2]

Etymology

The specific name, carvalhoi, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Antenor Leitão de Carvalho.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gymnophthalmidae.
  2. 1 2 3 4 The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Colobosauroides carvalhoi, p. 49).

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