Enyalioides

Enyalioides
Enyalioides rubrigularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria or
Lacertilia
Infraorder: Iguania
Family: Hoplocercidae
Genus: Enyalioides
Boulenger, 1885

Enyalioides is a genus of lizards in the Hoplocercidae family. The genus is endemic to the northern part of South America and Panama.

Common names: woodlizards,[1] wood lizards.

Species

Currently, 15 species are recognized:[2]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Enyalioides.

References

  1. Venegas, P.; Torres-Carvajal, O.; Duran, V.; De Queiroz, K. (2013). "Two sympatric new species of woodlizards (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from Cordillera Azul National Park in northeastern Peru". ZooKeys 277: 69. doi:10.3897/zookeys.277.3594.
  2. 15 in Reptile Database, including two described in March 2013 by Venegas, P.; Torres-Carvajal, O.; Duran, V.; De Queiroz, K. (2013). "Two sympatric new species of woodlizards (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from Cordillera Azul National Park in northeastern Peru". ZooKeys 277: 69. doi:10.3897/zookeys.277.3594.
  3. Torres-Carvajal, O.; de Queiroz, K.; Etheridge, R. 2009: A new species of iguanid lizard (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from southern Ecuador with a key to eastern Ecuadorian Enyalioides. ZooKeys, 27: 59-71. doi:10.3897/zookeys.27.273
  4. Torres-Carvajal, O.; Almendáriz, A.; Valencia, J.; Yánez-Muñoz, M.; Reyes, J.P. 2008: A new species of Enyalioides (Iguanidae: Hoplocercinae) from southwestern Ecuador. Papéis Avulsos de Zoología, 48: 227–235. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492008002000001

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