Cercosaura parkeri (Ruibal, 1952)

Ribeiro-Júnior, Marco A. & Amaral, Silvana, 2017, Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. IV. Alopoglossidae, Gymnophthalmidae, Zootaxa 4269 (2), pp. 151-196 : 165-166

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4269.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DDD8F72E-C27A-4B0F-82EA-17B01B93ED9C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6001323

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BA0C5B-2F74-FFFE-4EFF-F8A2FC29FEC8

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Plazi

scientific name

Cercosaura parkeri (Ruibal, 1952)
status

 

Cercosaura parkeri (Ruibal, 1952)

Type-locality. Buenavista, Departamento de Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Pertinent references. Ruibal (1952), Peters & Donoso-Barros (1970), Nascimento et al. (1988), Ávila-Pires (1995), Tedesco (1998), Tedesco & Cei (1999), Doan (2003), Barreto et al. (2012), Echevarría et al. (2015), Torres- Carvajal et al. (2015), Goicoechea et al. (2016).

Distribution and habitat. Cercosaura parkeri occurs in Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentina, in the Chaco, western portion of the Brazilian Cerrado, and southern Amazonia ( Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 ). In Amazonia its distribution is associated with the river systems of Beni, Mamoré, Guaporé, and Madeira. Barreto et al. (2012) also reported it from Peru. In Brazil, it is known from the states of Rondônia and Mato Grosso. Cercosaura parkeri is terrestrial and diurnal, inhabits semideciduous forest, tropical humid forest, seasonally flooded open areas, dense cerrado, and open grassland areas, where it is mainly found on the ground (Barreto et al. 2012).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Gymnophthalmidae

Genus

Cercosaura

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