Biology:Alopoglossus copii

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Short description: Species of lizard

Alopoglossus copii
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Alopoglossidae
Genus: Alopoglossus
Species:
A. copii
Binomial name
Alopoglossus copii
Boulenger, 1885

Alopoglossus copii, known commonly as the drab shade lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is native to northwestern South America.

Etymology

The specific name, copii, is in honor of American herpetologist Edward Drinker Cope.[1]

Geographic range

A. copii is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[2]

Habitat

The preferred habitat of A. copii is forest at altitudes of 310–1,390 m (1,020–4,560 ft).[3]

Reproduction

A. copii is oviparous.[2]

References

  1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Alopoglossus copii, p. 59).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Alopoglossus copii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 July 2019.
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Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Teiidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Alopoglossus copii, new species, pp. 383–384 + Plate XX, figures 1, 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d).
  • Duellman WE (1978). "The Biology of an Equatorial Herpetofauna in Amazonian Ecuador". University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Miscellaneous Publications (65): 1–352. (Alopoglossus copii, p. 210, Figure 123).
  • Goicoechea N, Frost DR, De la Riva I, Pellegrino KCM, Sites J, Rodrigues MT, Padial JM (2016). "Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment". Cladistics 32 (6): 624–671.
  • Köhler G, Diethert H-H, Veselý M (2012). "A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Lizard Genus Alopoglossus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)". Herpetological Monographs 26 (1): 173–188. (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).

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