| Enyalioides | |
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| Enyalioides rubrigularis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Hoplocercidae |
| Genus: | Enyalioides Boulenger, 1885 |
Enyalioides is a genus of lizards in the family Hoplocercidae.12 The genus is native to the northern part of South America and Panama.3 Species in the genus are commonly 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
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Enyalioides altotambo Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015 | tropical northwestern Andes in Ecuador | |
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Enyalioides anisolepis Torres-Carvajal, Venegas & de Queiroz, 2015 | Amazonian slopes of the Andes range in southern Ecuador and northern Peru. | |
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Enyalioides annularis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) | ringed manticore, ringed spinytail iguana | Ecuador,southern Colombia |
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Enyalioides azulae Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 20133 | Peru | |
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Enyalioides binzayedi Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, Duran & de Queiroz, 20133 | Peru | |
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Enyalioides cofanorum Duellman, 1973 | Cofán wood lizard, Duellman's dwarf iguana | Colombia and Ecuador |
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Enyalioides feiruzae Venegas, Chávez, García-Ayachi, Duran & Torres-Carvajal, 2021 | Río Huallaga Basin, Peru | |
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Enyalioides groi Dunn, 1933 | Gro’s manticores, Dunn's spinytail lizard, Dunn's spinytail iguana | Panama, northwestern Colombia |
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Enyalioides heterolepis (Bocourt, 1874) | Bocourt's dwarf iguana | Colombia, Ecuador, Panama |
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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 |
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Enyalioides palpebralis (Boulenger, 1883) | horned wood lizard | northern Bolivia, western Brazil, and eastern Peru |
| Enyalioides peruvianus Köhler, 2003 | Cenepa manticore | northern Peru | |
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Enyalioides praestabilis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) | blue-spotted wood lizard | Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |
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Enyalioides rubrigularis Torres-Carvajal, De Queiroz & Etheridge, 20094 | red-throated wood lizard | Ecuador |
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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, 20085 | 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.
References
References
- Enyalioides at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 9 September 2021.
- "Enyalioides Boulenger, 1885". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- 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): 69–90. Bibcode:2013ZooK..277...69V. doi:10.3897/zookeys.277.3594. PMC 3677373. PMID 23794824.
- Torres-Carvajal, Omar; de Queiroz, Kevin; Etheridge, Richard (2009). "A new species of iguanid lizard (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from southern Ecuador with a key to eastern Ecuadorian Enyalioides". ZooKeys (27): 59–71. Bibcode:2009ZooK...27...59T. doi:10.3897/zookeys.27.273.
- Torres-Carvajal, Omar; Almendáriz, Ana; Valencia, Jorge; Yánez-Muñoz, Mario; Reyes, Juan P. (2008). "A new species of Enyalioides (Iguanidae: Hoplocercinae) from southwestern Ecuador". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 48 (20): 227–235. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492008002000001.
Further reading
Further reading
- Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. Iguanidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I–XXIV. (Enyaliodes, new genus, p. 112).