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Neusticurus medemi Dixon & Lamar 1981
Authors/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
Neusticurus medemi Dixon & Lamar, 1981
Distribution: In the Amazonian region of Colombia and Venezuela. In Colombia in the eastern of Caquetá department, Guaviare, Vaupés and likely Guainía (Fig. 4C).
Similar species: This species may be confused with Gelanesaurus spp. and Potamites ecpleopus for their external resemblance, being distinguishable in having small irregular scales not forming ridges (enlarged or tubercular dorsal scales forming longitudinal ridges in Gelanesaurus spp. and P. ecpleopus).
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 387, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5067.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5681919
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Dixon & Lamar
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Gymnophthalmidae
- Genus
- Neusticurus
- Species
- medemi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neusticurus medemi Dixon, 1981 sec. Diago-Toro, García-Cobos, Brigante-Luna & Vásquez-Restrepo, 2021
References
- Dixon, J. R. & Lamar, W. W. (1981) A new species of microteiid lizard (genus Neusticurus) from Colombia. Journal of Herpetology, 15 (3), 309 - 314. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1563434