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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Alopoglossidae |
| Genus: | Alopoglossus |
| Species: | A. festae |
| Binomial name | |
| Alopoglossus festae (Peracca, 1896) | |
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Alopoglossus festae is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is native to northwestern South America.
Etymology
The specific name, festae, is in honor of Italian zoologist Enrico Festa.[3]
Geographic range
A. festae is found in southwestern Colombia and adjacent northwestern Ecuador.[1][2]
Habitat
The preferred habitat of A. festae is forest at altitudes of 10–2,000 m (33–6,562 ft).[1]
Reproduction
References
- 1 2 3 Cisneros-Heredia, D.F.; Velasco, J.; Bolívar, W. (2016). "Alopoglossus festae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T44578111A44578114. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T44578111A44578114.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- 1 2 3 Alopoglossus festae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 July 2019.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Alopoglossus festae, p. 89).
Further reading
- Artega A, Pyron RA, Peñafiel N, Romero-Barreto P, Culebras J, Bustamante L, Yánez-Muñoz MH, Guayasamin JM (2016). "Comparative Phylogeography Reveals Cryptic Diversity and Repeated Patterns of Cladogenesis for Amphibians and Reptiles in Northwestern Ecuador". PLoS ONE 11 (4): e0151746.
- Hernández-Morales C, Sturaro MJ, Sales-Nunes P, Lotzkat S, Peloso PLV (2020). "A species-level total evidence phylogeny of the microteiid lizard family Alopoglossidae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea)". Cladistics 36 (3): 301–321.
- Peracca MG (1896). "Descrizione di un nuovo genere e di una nuova specie di Teiidae raccolta nel Darien dal dott. E. Festa". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Regia Università di Torino 11 (235): 1-4. (Diastemalepis festae, new species, pp. 2–4, Figures 1–5). (in Italian).
- Ruibal R (1952). "Revisionary Studies of some South American Teiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 106: 475–529. (Alopoglossus festae, pp. 502–505).
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