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

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 ).

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).

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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.