Colobosauroides
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Colobosauroides
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Colobosauroides is a small genus in the family of spectacled lizards.[1][2] Colobosauroides is endemic to Brazil.
Geographic range
Species in the genus Colobosauroides are found in northeastern Brazil, in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Ceará.[2]
Species
The genus Colobosauroides includes only the following two species:[2]
- Colobosauroides carvalhoi M. Soares & Caramaschi, 1998
- Colobosauroides cearensis da Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991
Etymology
The specific name, carvalhoi, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Antenor Leitão de Carvalho.[3]
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Further reading
- da Cunha OR, Lima-Verde JS, Lima ACM. 1991. "Novo genero e espécie de lagarto do Estado do Ceará (Lacertilia: Teiidae)". Boletim Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Nova Série Zoologia 7 (2): 163-176. (Colobosauroides, new genus; C. cearensis, new species). (in Portuguese).
- Soares M, Caramaschi U. 1998. "Espécie nova de Colobosauroides Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991 do estado da Bahia, Brasil (Squamata, Sauria, Gymnophthalmidae)". Bol. Mus. Nac. Nov. Sér., Rio de Janeiro 388: 1-8. (Colobosauroides carvalhoi, new species). (in Portuguese).
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gymnophthalmidae.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
- ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Colobosauroides carvalhoi, p. 49).