Cercosaura hypnoides Doan & Lamar, 2012

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 : 386

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5067.3.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5699685

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cercosaura hypnoides Doan & Lamar, 2012
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Cercosaura hypnoides Doan & Lamar, 2012

Distribution: This species is endemic to Colombia, currently known from the Andean slopes in the department of Meta, municipality of Acacías ( Fig. 4C View FIGURE 4 ).

Similar species: Cercosaura hypnoides can be distinguished from all other Cercosaura species in the cis-Andean region in having hexagonal dorsal scales arranged in transverse and oblique series (hexagonal in transverse rows in C. argulus and C. oshaughnessyi , and quadrangular in the C. ocellata group). C. hypnoides may be easily confused with any red-tailed Gymnophthalmus by its color pattern, however, it is easily differentiable in possessing dorsal and ventral scales non-cycloid and pentadactyl hands (dorsal and ventral scales cycloid and hands with four digits in Gymnophthalmus ). Moreover, it can be distinguished from members of the Cercosaura ocellata group in having a divided nasal scale and black belly with diffused cream blotches (undivided nasal and white or cream belly in C. ocellata group). See Doan & Lamar (2012) and Sturaro et al. (2018) for a detailed description.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Gymnophthalmidae

Genus

Cercosaura

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