Bachia pyburni Kizirian & McDiarmid, 1998

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

Bachia pyburni Kizirian & McDiarmid, 1998

Distribution: Northwestern Amazonia in Brazil, Venezuela, and Colombia ( Ribeiro-Júnior et al. 2016). In Colombia in the eastern Amazonia, in the departments of Guaviare and Vaupés ( Fig. 4B ).

Similar species: Bachia pyburni belongs to the B. bresslaui group, being differentiable from B. flavescens in having hexagonal to lanceolate dorsal scales (quadrangular in B. flavescens ). It can also be separated from the B. heteropa group in having keeled dorsals (smooth in B. heteropa species). This species also differs from its congenerics by the presence of lanceolated scales on the venter (quadrangular in B. flavescens , B. guianensis and B. heteropa ). For a more detailed description see Kizirian & McDiarmid (1998).

Remarks: The type locality of this species is “Yapima, Vaupes, Colombia ” [ca. 1° 3' 0.0108'' N, 69° 28' 0.0084'' W].

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.