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Alopoglossus is a genus of lizards in the monogeneric family Alopoglossidae. The genus is distributed from Costa Rica in Central America to northern South America.




Species


The genus Alopoglossus contains the following 32 valid species:

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-Junior, 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-Junior, 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 – green-headed shade lizard
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Alopoglossus.




References






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. (Alopoglossus, new genus, p. 383).

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Alopoglossus
• Alopoglossus andeanus
• Alopoglossus carinicaudatus
• Alopoglossus embera
• Alopoglossus brevifrontalis
• Alopoglossus plicatus
• Alopoglossus angulatus
• Alopoglossus viridiceps
• Alopoglossus eurylepis
• Alopoglossus lehmanni