Published November 11, 2021 | Version v1
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Alopoglossus buckleyi

  • 1. Programa de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Básicas y Tecnologías, Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, Quindío, Colombia.
  • 2. Subdirección de Investigaciones, Colecciones Biológicas, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, carrera 8 # 15 - 08, Claustro de San Agustín, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia.
  • 3. Grupo de investigación de Biodiversidad del Caribe Colombiano, Semillero de Herpetología, Programa de Biología, Universidad del Atlántico. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6823 - 2383
  • 4. Programa de Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México.

Description

Alopoglossus buckleyi (O’Shaughnessy, 1881)

Distribution: Western Amazonia in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia (Ribeiro-Júnior & Amaral 2017). In Colombia along the southern Amazonian region, in the departments of Putumayo, Caquetá, Vaupés and Amazonas (Fig. 4A).

Similar species: Alopoglossus buckleyi can be differentiated from other similar species due to the lack of occipital scales (present in A. bicolor and A. brevifrontalis); in having small granular scales on the sides of the neck, similar in shape to those near the tympanic aperture (non-granular, keeled and imbricated resembling those in the dorse in A. avilapiresae and A. carinicaudatus); and for possessing smooth ventral scales (strongly or weakly keeled in A. atriventris). For a more detailed description see Ribeiro-Júnior et al. (2020).

Notes

Published as part of Diago-Toro, María F., García-Cobos, Daniela, Brigante-Luna, Giovanni D. & Vásquez-Restrepo, Juan D., 2021, Fantastic lizards and where to find them: cis-Andean microteiids (Squamata: Alopoglossidae & Gymnophthalmidae) from the Colombian Orinoquia and Amazonia, pp. 377-400 in Zootaxa 5067 (3) on page 384, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5067.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5681919

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References

  • 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. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1881. tb 01282. x
  • Ribeiro-Junior, M. A. & Amaral, S. (2017) Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. IV. Alopoglossidae, Gymnophthalmidae. Zootaxa, 4269 (2), 151 - 196. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4269.2.1
  • Ribeiro-Junior, M. A., Choueri, R., Lobos, S., Venegas, P., Torres-Carvajal, O. & Werneck, F. (2020) Eight in one: morphological and molecular analyses reveal cryptic diversity in Amazonian alopoglossid lizards (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea). Zoological Journal of Linnean Society, 190 (1), 227 - 270. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / zoolinnean / zlz 155