Alopoglossus atriventris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Alopoglossidae
Genus: Alopoglossus
Species:
A. atriventris
Binomial name
Alopoglossus atriventris
Duellman, 1973

Alopoglossus atriventris, known commonly as the keel-bellied shade lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is endemic to northwestern South America.

Etymology

The specific name, atriventris, is from Latin ater (black) + venter (belly),[2] referring to the black belly of the male.[3]

Geographic range

A. atriventris is found in Brazil (Acre, western Amazonas), Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[4]

Habitat

The natural habitat of A. atriventris is lowland tropical forest[4] at altitudes of 130–1,500 m (430–4,920 ft),[1] where it lives in the leaf litter of the forest floor.[4]

Reproduction

A. atriventris is oviparous.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Calderón M, Perez P, Avila-Pires TCS, Aparicio J, Moravec J (2019). "Alopoglossus atriventris ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T44578076A44578081. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T44578076A44578081.en. Downloaded on 04 October 2019.
  2. ↑ Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press. 1,055 pp. (in two volumes). ("English equivalents of Latin names", p. 3).
  3. ↑ Duellman (1973).
  4. 1 2 3 4 Alopoglossus atriventris at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 July 2019.

Further reading

  • Duellman WE (1973). "Descriptions of New Lizards from the Upper Amazon Basin". Herpetologica 29 (3): 228–231. (Alopoglossus ariventris, new species, p. 228).
  • Köhler G, Diethert H-H, Veselý M (2012). "A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Lizard Genus Alopoglossus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)". Herpetological Monographs 26 (1): 173–188.
  • Ribeiro-Júnior MA (2018). "A new species of Alopoglossus lizard (Squamata, Alopoglossidae) from the Southern Guiana Shield, northeastern Amazonia, with remarks on diagnostic characters to the genus". Zootaxa 4422 (1): 025–040.
  • Ribeiro-Júnior MA, Amaral S (2017). "Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. 4. Alopoglossidae, Gymnophthalmidae". Zootaxa 4269 (2): 151–196.
  • Vitt LJ, Ávila-Pires TCS, Espósito MC, Sartorius SS, Zani PA (2007). "Ecology of Alopoglossus angulatus and A. atriventris (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) in western Amazonia". Phyllomedusa 6 (1): 11–21.


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