Euspondylus

Familia: Gymnophthalmidae
Subfamilia: Cercosaurinae
Tribus: Cercosaurini
Genus:
Species (10): E. acutirostris – E. auyanensis – E. caideni – E. excelsum – E. guentheri – E. maculatus – E. monsfumus – E. nellycarrillae – E. paxcorpus – E. simonsii

Euspondylus Tschudi, 1845: 160

• Type species: Euspondylus maculatus Tschudi, 1845, by monotypy.

• Tschudi, J.J. von 1845. Reptilium conspectus quae in republica Peruana reperiuntur er pleraque observata vel collecta sunt in itenere. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 11(1): 150–170. BHL

• Köhler, G. & Lehr, E. 2004. Comments on Euspondylus and Proctoporus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Peru, with the description of three new species and a key to the Peruvian species. Herpetologica 60(4): 501–518. DOI: 10.1655/03-93 Reference page. 
• Myers, C.W., Rivas Fuenmayor, G.A. & Jadin, R.C. 2009. New species of lizards from Auyantepui and La Escalera in the Venezuelan Guayana, with notes on "microteiid" hemipenes (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae). American Museum Novitates 3660: 1–32. DOI: 10.1206/657.1 hdl: 2246/5983 Reference page. 
• Doan, T.M. & Adams, G. 2015. A novel species of Euspondylus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Andes Mountains of central Peru. Zootaxa 4033(1): 129–136. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4033.1.7. Preview (PDF). Reference page. 
• Torres-Carvajal, O., Lobos, S.E., Venegas, P.J., Chávez, G., Aguirre-Peñafiel, V., Zurita, D. & Echevarría, L.Y. 2016. Phylogeny and biogeography of the most diverse clade of South American gymnophthalmid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 99: 63–75. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.006 Reference page. 
• Chávez, G., Catenazzi, A. & Venegas, P.J. 2017. A new species of arboreal microteiid lizard of the genus Euspondylus (Gymnophtalmidae: Cercosaurinae) from the Andean slopes of central Peru with comments on Peruvian Euspondylus. Zootaxa 4350(2): 301–316. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.2.6 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Euspondylus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 12 November 2018.