Oxyrophus fitzingeri (Tschudi, 1845)

Cuadrado, Stefania S., Loor, Yelsin A. & Narváez, Andrea E., 2020, Herpetofauna of Engabao, Playas Canton, Ecuador, with notes on the occurrence of Ceratoprhys stolzmanni (Steindachner, 1882), Check List 16 (3), pp. 665-674 : 667-668

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.3.665

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scientific name

Oxyrophus fitzingeri (Tschudi, 1845)
status

 

Oxyrophus fitzingeri (Tschudi, 1845)

Figure 2B

Material examined. ECUADOR, province of Guayas, Playas Canton, Engabao • 1 specimen (sex undeter- mined), 534 mm; human settlements (inside an aban- doned house); 02°36′38″S, 080°26′14″W; 12 m a.s.l; 14 Apr. 2019; Stefania S. Cuadrado, Yelsin A. Loor leg.; UG-R173.

Identification. This species is nocturnal and terrestrial. It has a dark brown coloration with irregular, white or yellow dots. A female is known to measure approximately

714 mm in total length (tail 157 mm) and a male 647 mm in total length (tail 131mm) ( Peters and Orejas-Miranda 1970; Pazmiño-Otamendi 2017).

Only one individual of this species was found, at site B. It was hidden in the abandoned, small house along the roadside at 13:00.

Distribution. Oxyrhopus fitzingeri occurs in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It lives in the

tropical and subtropical western zones, between 10–1830 m.a.s.l. In Ecuador, it has been reported from the provinces of Guayas, Loja, El Oro, and Santa Elena (Wallach et al. 2014; Pazmiño-Otamendi 2019).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Teiidae

Genus

Oxyrophus

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