Enyalius leechii Boulenger 1885
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Description
Enyalius leechii (Boulenger, 1885)
Type-locality. Santarém, state of Pará, Brazil.
Main taxonomic references. Boulenger (1885), Amaral (1933), Etheridge (1969, 1970b), Vanzolini (1973), Nascimento et al. (1987), Ávila-Pires (1995), Frost et al. (2001a), Bertolotto et al. (2002), Rodrigues et al. (2006, 2014).
Distribution and habitat. Enyalius leechii is endemic to southern Brazilian Amazonia, delimited by the Madeira and Amazon rivers (western and northern limits, respectively—Fig. 12), and it is known from the states of Maranhão, Pará, Mato Grosso, and Rondônia. It is predominantly terrestrial and diurnal, inhabits shaded primary terra firme forest, where it is found on the ground (extremely cryptic—color pattern provides an efficient camouflage on the dry leaves), and occasionally on vegetation (below 1.5 meter high—Ávila-Pires 1995; Vitt et al. 1996a; 1999; Macedo et al. 2008).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Leiosauridae
- Genus
- Enyalius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Boulenger
- Species
- leechii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Enyalius leechii Boulenger, 1885 sec. Ribeiro-Júnior, 2015
References
- Boulenger, G. A. (1885) Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. II. Iguanidae, Xenosauridae, Zonuridae, Anguidae, Anniellidae, Helodermatidae, Varanidae, Xantusiidae, Teiidae, Amphisbaenidae. 2 nd Edition. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 497 pp.
- Amaral, A. (1933) Estudos sobre lacertilios neotropicos. I. Novos generos e especies de lagartos do Brasil. Memorias do Instituto Butantan, 7, 51 - 75.
- Etheridge, R. (1969) A review of the iguanid lizard genus Enyalius. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 18, 231 - 260.
- Etheridge, R. (1970 b) Enyalius. In: Peters, J. A. & Donoso-Barros, R. (Eds.), Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: part II. Lizards and amphisbaenians. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 297, 117 - 118.
- Vanzolini, P. E. (1973) Garbesaura garbei Amaral, 1933, a synonym of Enyalius leechii (Boulenger, 1885) (Sauria, Iguanidae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia, 27, 173 - 175.
- Nascimento, F. P., Avila-Pires, T. C. S. & Cunha, O. R. (1987) Os repteis da area de Carajas, Para, Brasil (Squamata). II. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Zoologia, 3, 33 - 65.
- Avila-Pires, T. C. S. (1995) Lizards of Brazilian Amazonia (Reptilia: Squamata). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 299, 1 - 706.
- Frost, D. R., Etheridge, R., Janies, D. & Titus, T. A. (2001 a) Total evidence, sequence alignment, evolution of Polychrotid lizards, and a reclassification of the Iguania (Squamata: Iguania). American Museum Novitates, 3343, 1 - 38. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1206 / 0003 - 0082 (2001) 343 <0001: TESAEO> 2.0. CO; 2
- Bertolotto, C. E. V., Pellegrino, K. C. M., Rodrigues, M. T. & Yonenaga-Yassuda, Y. (2002) Comparative cytogenetics and supernumerary chromosomes in the Brazilian lizard genus Enyalius (Squamata, Polychrotidae). Hereditas, 136, 51 - 57. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1034 / j. 1601 - 5223.2002.1360108. x
- Macedo, L. C., Bernarde, P. S. & Abe, A. S. (2008) Lagartos (Squamata: Lacertilia) em areas de floresta e de pastagem em Espigao do Oeste, Rondonia, sudoeste da Amazonia, Brasil. Biota Neotropica, 8, 133 - 139. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1590 / S 1676 - 06032008000100016