Cercosaura hypnoides Doan & Lamar 2012
Creators
- 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
Cercosaura hypnoides Doan & Lamar, 2012
Distribution: This species is endemic to Colombia, currently known from the Andean slopes in the department of Meta, municipality of Acacías (Fig. 4C).
Similar species: Cercosaura hypnoides can be distinguished from all other Cercosaura species in the cis-Andean region in having hexagonal dorsal scales arranged in transverse and oblique series (hexagonal in transverse rows in C. argulus and C. oshaughnessyi, and quadrangular in the C. ocellata group). C. hypnoides may be easily confused with any red-tailed Gymnophthalmus by its color pattern, however, it is easily differentiable in possessing dorsal and ventral scales non-cycloid and pentadactyl hands (dorsal and ventral scales cycloid and hands with four digits in Gymnophthalmus). Moreover, it can be distinguished from members of the Cercosaura ocellata group in having a divided nasal scale and black belly with diffused cream blotches (undivided nasal and white or cream belly in C. ocellata group). See Doan & Lamar (2012) and Sturaro et al. (2018) for a detailed description.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Gymnophthalmidae
- Genus
- Cercosaura
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Doan & Lamar
- Species
- hypnoides
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cercosaura hypnoides Doan, 2012 sec. Diago-Toro, García-Cobos, Brigante-Luna & Vásquez-Restrepo, 2021
References
- Doan, T. M. & Lamar, W. W. (2012) A new montane species of Cercosaura (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Colombia, with notes on the distribution of the genus. Zootaxa, 3565 (1), 44 - 54. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3565.1.4
- Sturaro, M. J., Rodrigues, M. T., Colli, G. R., Knowles, L. L. & Avila-Pires, T. C. (2018) Integrative taxonomy of the lizards Cercosaura ocellata species complex (Reptilia: Gymnophthalmidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 275, 37 - 65. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. jcz. 2018.04.004