Proctoporus

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Proctoporus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gymnophthalmidae
Genus: Proctoporus
Tschudi, 1845
Species
  • P. pachyurus Tschudi, 1845 (type)
  • P. bolivianus (Werner, 1910) synonym P. subsolanus
  • P. chasqui (Chávez, Siu-Tinf, Dúran & Venegas, 2011)synonym Euspondylus chasqui
  • P. guenteri Boettger, 1891 synonyms Oreosaurus guenteri, O. ocellifer, O. anomalus
  • P. sucullucu Doan & Castoe, 2003
  • P. unsaacae Doan & Castoe, 2003
  • P. xestus (Uzzell, 1969) synonym Opipeuter xestus[1]
Synonyms

Opipeuter Uzzell, 1969, non Fortey, 1974 (a trilobite)

Proctoporus is a genus of medium sized lizards (between 2.7 centimetres or 1.1 inches and 7.8 centimetres or 3.1 inches) assigned to the family Gymnophtalmidae, that occurs in yungas forrests and wet montane grasslands on the upper edge of the Amazonian forrest, between 1000 and 4000 meter high, from the Central Peru in the North to Central Bolivia in the South.[1]


Taxonomy

Relationships between the species assigned to Proctoporus. Note several new species that were previously assigned to P. bolivianus, but need to be split-off based on genetic analysis


Species previously assigned to Proctoporus

  • Proctoporus achlyens
  • Proctoporus anatoloros
  • Proctoporus balneator
  • Proctoporus cashcaensis
  • Proctoporus cephalolineatus
  • Proctoporus colomaromani
  • Proctoporus columbianus
  • Proctoporus hypostictus
  • Proctoporus inanis
  • Proctoporus labionis
  • Proctoporus laevis
  • Proctoporus luctuosus
  • Proctoporus meleagris
  • Proctoporus oculatus
  • Proctoporus orcesi
  • Proctoporus pachyurus
  • Proctoporus petrorum
  • Proctoporus raneyi
  • Proctoporus shrevei
  • Proctoporus simoterus
  • Proctoporus stigmatoral
  • Proctoporus striatus
  • Proctoporus unicolor
  • P. ventrimaculatus = Petracola ventrimaculatus (Dwarf Plated Tegu)
  • Proctoporus vespertinus
  • Proctoporus vietus

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Goicoechea, N.; Padial, J.M.; Chaparro, J.C.; Castrovejo-Fisher, S.; De la Riva, I. (2012). "Molecular phylogenetics, species diversity, and biogeography of the Andean lizards of the genus Proctoporus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65: 953–964. 


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