Proctoporus
| Proctoporus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Scincomorpha |
| Family: | Gymnophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Proctoporus Tschudi, 1845 |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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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 Gymnophthalmidae. Species in the genus Proctoporus occur in yungas forests and wet montane grasslands on the upper edge of the Amazonian forest, between 1,000 and 4,000 metres (3,300 and 13,100 ft) elevation, from 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 machupicchu
- 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 2 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. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.08.017.
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