Uracentron flaviceps Guichenot 1855
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Uracentron flaviceps (Guichenot, 1855)
Type-locality. Mission de Sarayacu, Peru.
Pertinent taxonomic references. Guichenot (1855), Cope (1871), O’Shaughnessy (1881), Boulenger (1885), Etheridge (1968, 1970f), Duellman (1978), Frost (1992), Ávila-Pires (1995), Harvey & Gutberlet (1998), Frost et al. (2001b).
Distribution and habitat. Uracentron flaviceps is endemic to western Amazonia, with eastern distribution restricted by the lower Negro River (west side), and upper Madeira river (both sides), occurring in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru (Fig. 22). In Brazil it is known from the states of Amazonas, Acre, and Rondônia. Uracentron flaviceps is arboreal and diurnal, inhabits primary terra firme forest, seasonally inundated forest, and occasionally secondary forest (Fugler & Schwaner 1968; Dixon & Soini 1975; 1986; Duellman 1978; Zani & Vitt 1995; Vitt & Zani 1996a; de Freitas et al. 2011). It is found on large horizontal branches of large trees with hollow areas (entrances or holes), at heights between 0.3 to 10 meters above ground or water (Vitt & Zani 1996a). According the same authors, when disturbed the lizards generally retreated into the holes (the cavities in limbs or trunks), and occasionally ran down on trunks, entering in water (in flooded forest).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tropiduridae
- Genus
- Uracentron
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Guichenot
- Species
- flaviceps
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Uracentron flaviceps Guichenot, 1855 sec. Ribeiro-Júnior, 2015
References
- Guichenot, A. (1855) Animaux nouveaux ou rares recueillis pendant. In: Castelnau, F. L. L., Expedition dans les parties centrales de l'Amerique du Sud, de Rio de Janeiro a Lima, et de Lima au Para; Executee par ordre du Gouvernement Francais pendant les annees 1843 a 1847, sous la direction du Compt. P. Bertrand, Paris, pp. 1 - 18.
- Cope, E. D. (1871) Eighth contribution to the herpetology of Tropical America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 11, 553 - 559.
- O'Shaughnessy, A. W. E. (1881) An account of the collection of lizards made by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador, and now in the British Museum, with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1881, 227 - 245.
- 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.
- Etheridge, R. E. (1968) A review of the iguanid genera Uracentron and Strobilurus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 17, 45 - 64.
- Etheridge, R. E. (1970 f) Uracentron. 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, pp. 273 - 274.
- Duellman, W. E. (1978) The biology of an equatorial herpetofauna in Amazonian Ecuador. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Natural History of University of Kansas, 65, 1 - 352.
- Frost, D. R. (1992) Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of the Tropidurus group of lizards (Iguania: Tropiduridae). American Museum Novitates, 3033, 1 - 68.
- Avila-Pires, T. C. S. (1995) Lizards of Brazilian Amazonia (Reptilia: Squamata). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 299, 1 - 706.
- Harvey, M. B. & Gutberlet Jr., R. L. (1998) Lizards of the genus Tropidurus (Iguania: Tropiduridae) from the Serrania de Huanchaca, Bolivia: new species, natural history, and a key to the genus. Herpetologica, 54, 493 - 520.
- Frost, D. R., Rodrigues, M. T., Grant, T. & Titus, T. A. (2001 b) Phylogenetics of the lizard genus Tropidurus (Squamata: Tropiduridae: Tropidurinae): direct optimization, descriptive efficiency, and sensitivity analysis of congruence between molecular data and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 21, 352 - 371. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1006 / mpev. 2001.1015
- Fugler, C. M. & Schwaner, T. D. (1968) Sexual dichromatism in the genus Uracentron Kaup in eastern Ecuador. Herpetologica, 24, 253 - 255.
- Dixon, J. R. & Soini, P. (1975) The reptiles of the upper Amazon Basin, Iquitos region, Peru. Part 1. Lizards and amphisbaenians. Milwaukee Public Museum, Contributions in Biology and Geology, 4, 1 - 58.
- Dixon, J. R. & Soini, P. (1986) The reptiles of the upper Amazon Basin, Iquitos region, Peru. Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, 154 pp.
- Zani, P. A. & Vitt, L. J. (1995) Techniques: techniques for capturing arboreal lizards. Herpetological Review, 26, 136 - 137.
- de Freitas, M. A., Franca, D. P. F. & Verissimo, D. (2011) Distribution extension of Uracentron flaviceps (Guichenot, 1855) (Reptilia: Squamata): second record for the state of Acre, Brazil. Check List, 7, 823 - 824.