Oreosaurus
Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Lacertoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Gymnophthalmidae
Subfamilia: Cercosaurinae
Tribus: Cercosaurini
Genus:
Species (9):
O. achlyens –
O. bisbali –
O. cephalolineatus –
O. inanis –
O. luctuosus –
O. mcdiarmidi –
O. rhodogaster –
O. serranus –
O. shrevei
Name
- Type species: Ecpleopus (Oreosaurus) luctuosus Peters 1863, by subsequent designated by Burt & Burt (1931: 365).
References
Primary references
- Peters, W. 1862. Über Cercosaura und die mit dieser Gattung verwandten Eidechsen aus Südamerica. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1862: 165–225. BHL
Additional references
- Sánchez-Pacheco, S.J., Nunes, P.M.S., Marques-Souza, A. Rodrigues, M.T. & Murphy, R.W. 2017. Formal recognition of the species of Oreosaurus (Reptilia, Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. ZooKeys 691: 149–162. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.691.13595
Reference page. - Sánchez-Pacheco, S.J., Torres-Carvajal, O., Aguirre-Peñafiel, V., Nunes, P.M.S., Verrastro, L., Rivas, G.A., Rodrigues, M.T., Grant, T. & Murphy, R.W. 2018. Phylogeny of Riama (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), impact of phenotypic evidence on molecular datasets, and the origin of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta endemic fauna. Cladistics 34(3): 260–291. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12203 Reference page.
- Rivas, G.A., Nunes, P.M.S., Baran, A., Jowers, M.J., Smith, E.N., Hernández-Morales, C. & Schargel, W.E. 2021. A new species of Oreosaurus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Turimiquire Massif, northeastern Venezuela. Zootaxa 5023(4): 571–584. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.4.6
Reference page.
Links
- Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Oreosaurus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 7 February 2025.