Basiliscus galeritus Dumeril 1851
Description
Basiliscus galeritus Duméril 1851: 61.
Material examined. Table 2.
Adults of this large semiaquatic lizard are easily recognized by their gray to green color and the presence of a single, rounded head crest that is larger in males. Similar species that are found sympatric with B. galeritus are Corytophanes cristatus and Basiliscus basiliscus. The first is usually brownish and has 2 head crests that converge posteriorly. Basiliscus basiliscus has a brown or gray coloration and a single pointed head crest that is larger in males. Males of B. basiliscus also have a large crest in the back that resembles a fin (Maturana 1962; Savage 2002; Köhler 2008).
Corytophanes cristatus (Merrem, 1820): Figure 8B Agama cristata Merrem 1820: 50.
Corytophanes cristatus —Boie in Schlegel 1827: 290.
Material examined. Table 2.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Dumeril
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Corytophanidae
- Genus
- Basiliscus
- Species
- galeritus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Basiliscus galeritus Dumeril, 1851 sec. Restrepo, Molina-Zuluaga, Hurtado, Marín & Daza, 2017
References
- Dumeril AMC, Dumeril AHA (1851) Catalogue Methodique de la Col- lection des Reptiles du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Gide et Baudry / Roret, Paris, 224 pp.
- Maturana HR (1962) A study of the species of the genus Basiliscus. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 128: 1 - 34.
- Savage JM (2002) The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Her- petofauna between Two Continents, between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 934 pp.
- Kohler G (2008) Reptiles of Central America, 2 nd ed. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 400 pp.
- Merrem B (1820) Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien I (Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum). J. C. Kriegeri, Marburg, 191 pp.
- Schlegel H (1827) Herpetologische Nachrichten. Isis von Oken 20: 281 - 294.