Pholidobolus

Familia: Gymnophthalmidae
Subfamilia: Cercosaurinae
Tribus: Cercosaurini
Genus:
Species (17): P. affinis – P. argosi – P. celsiae – P. condor – P. dicrus – P. dolichoderes – P. fascinatus – P. hillisi – P. macbrydei – P. marianus – P. montium – P. odinsae – P. paramuno – P. prefrontalis – P. samek – P. ulisesi – P. vertebralis

Pholidobolus Peters, 1863: 173

• Type species: Ecpleopus (Pholidobolus) montium Peters, 1863, by monotypy.

• Peters, W. [1862] 1863. Über Cercosaura und die mit dieser Gattung verwandten Eidechsen aus Südamerika. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1862: 165–225. BHL

• Torres-Carvajal, O. & Mafla-Endara, P. 2013. Evolutionary history of Andean Pholidobolus and Macropholidus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) lizards. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68(2): 212–217. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.03.013 Reference page. 
• Torres-Carvajal, O., Venegas, P.J., Lobos, S.E., Mafla-Endara, P. & Nunes, P.M.S. 2014. A new species of Pholidobolus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Andes of southern Ecuador. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 8(1) [Special Section]: 76–88. Reference page. 
• Venegas, P.J., Echevarría, L.Y., Lobos, S.E., Nunes, P.M.S. & Torres-Carvajal, O. 2016. A new species of Andean microteiid lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae: Pholidobolus) from Peru, with comments on P. vertebralis. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 10(1) [Special Section]: 21–33. Reference page. 
• Hurtado-Gómez, J.P., Arredondo, J.C., Nunes, P.M.S. & Daza, J.M. 2018. A New Species of Pholidobolus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Paramo Ecosystem in the Northern Andes of Colombia. South American Journal of Herpetology 13(3): 271–286. DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-15-00014.1 Reference page. 
• Parra, V., Nunes, P.M.S. & Torres-Carvajal, O. 2020. Systematics of Pholidobolus lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from southern Ecuador, with descriptions of four new species. ZooKeys 954: 109–156. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.954.50667 Reference page. 
• Amézquita, A., Mazariegos-H., L.A., Cañaveral, S., Orejuela, C., Barragán-Contreras, L.A. & Daza, J.M. 2023. Species richness under a vertebral stripe: integrative taxonomy uncovers three additional species of Pholidobolus lizards (Sauria, Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from the north-western Colombian Andes. Zookeys 1141: 119–148. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1141.94774 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Pholidobolus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 21 May 2023.

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