Euspondylus

Euspondylus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Sauria or Lacertilia
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Superfamily:	Lacertoidea
Family:	Gymnophthalmidae
Genus:	Euspondylus Tschudi, 1845 [1]

Euspondylus is a genus of gymnophthalmid lizards endemic to northern South America.^[2]

Species

The following 12 species are recognized as being valid.^[2]

• Euspondylus acutirostris (W. Peters, 1863)
• Euspondylus auyanensis Myers, G. Rivas & Jadin, 2009
• Euspondylus caideni G. Köhler, 2003
• Euspondylus guentheri (O'Shaughnessy, 1881)
• Euspondylus josyi G. Köhler, 2003
• Euspondylus maculatus Tschudi, 1845
• Euspondylus monsfumus Mijares-Urrutia, Señaris & Arends, 2001
• Euspondylus nellycarillae G. Köhler & Lehr, 2004
• Euspondylus oreades Chávez, Siu-Ting, Duran & Venegas, 2011
• Euspondylus paxcorpus Doan & Adams, 2015^[3]
• Euspondylus rahmi (de Grijs, 1936)
• Euspondylus simonsii Boulenger, 1901
• Euspondylus spinalis (Boulenger, 1911)

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

References

1. Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gymnophthalmidae.
2. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
3. Doan, T. M., & Adams, G. (2015). A novel species of Euspondylus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Andes Mountains of central Peru. Zootaxa, 4033(1), 129-136

Further reading

• Boulenger GA. 1885. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Teiidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Genus Euspondylus, p. 404).
• Tschudi JJ. 1845. "Reptilium conspectus quae in Republica Peruana reperiuntur et pleraque observata vel collecta sunt in itenere ". Archiv für Naturgeschichte 11 (1): 150-170. (Euspondylus, new genus, pp. 160–161). (in Latin).