Tropiduridae, Bell, 1843

Barrio-Amorós, César L. & Brewer-Carías, Charles, 2010, Venezuelan Guayana, with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 1942, pp. 1-68 : 49

Family Tropiduridae

Camp III. Not collected.

A Tropidurus - Plica like lizard was the only lizard observed at the summit of Sarisariñama. In a granitic dome, covered by Brochinnia hechtioides bromeliads, we saw an individual quickly escaping inside a crevice. Some tropidurid lizards are known to be endemic to different tepuis. Tropidurus bogerti is apparently endemic to Auyan-tepui ( Roze 1958 a). Donnelly and Myers (1991) described Plica lumaria from Guaiquinima, and recently Myers and Donnelly (2001) named Tropidurus panstictus from Yutajé-Corocoro massif, which is also known from Lago Leopoldo (Paraka-Wachoi; O. Fuentes, pers. comm.), 150 km to the SW, and likely inhabits all areas in between. It would be not unlikely to find a different species inhabiting the Jaua-Sarisariñama massif.