Alopoglossus buckleyi ( O’Shaughnessy, 1881 )

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, Zootaxa 5067 (3), pp. 377-400 : 384

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scientific name	Alopoglossus buckleyi ( O’Shaughnessy, 1881 )
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Alopoglossus buckleyi ( O’Shaughnessy, 1881)

Distribution: Western Amazonia in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia ( Ribeiro-Júnior & Amaral 2017). In Colombia along the southern Amazonian region, in the departments of Putumayo, Caquetá, Vaupés and Amazonas ( Fig. 4A View FIGURE 4 ).

Similar species: Alopoglossus buckleyi can be differentiated from other similar species due to the lack of occipital scales (present in A. bicolor and A. brevifrontalis ); in having small granular scales on the sides of the neck, similar in shape to those near the tympanic aperture (non-granular, keeled and imbricated resembling those in the dorse in A. avilapiresae and A. carinicaudatus ); and for possessing smooth ventral scales (strongly or weakly keeled in A. atriventris ). For a more detailed description see Ribeiro-Júnior et al. (2020).

References

O'Shaughnessy, A. W. E. (1881) An account of the collection of lizards made by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador, and now in the British Museum, with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1881, 227 - 245. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1881. tb 01282. x

Ribeiro-Junior, M. A. & Amaral, S. (2017) Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. IV. Alopoglossidae, Gymnophthalmidae. Zootaxa, 4269 (2), 151 - 196. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4269.2.1

Ribeiro-Junior, M. A., Choueri, R., Lobos, S., Venegas, P., Torres-Carvajal, O. & Werneck, F. (2020) Eight in one: morphological and molecular analyses reveal cryptic diversity in Amazonian alopoglossid lizards (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea). Zoological Journal of Linnean Society, 190 (1), 227 - 270. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / zoolinnean / zlz 155

Figures

FIGURE 4. Distribution maps for the cis-Andean microteiid lizards in Colombia (Alopoglossidae + Gymnophthalmidae). Circles are examined specimens, while squares are records from literature (see Supplementary Files for specific references). Red arrows indicate new records for Colombia. Black arrows show a zoom in to regions where several records overlap. The light green shadow indicates the Orinoco River basin, and the dark green the Amazon River basin.