Colobosauroides

Colobosauroides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gymnophthalmidae
Tribe: Ecpleopodini
Genus: Colobosauroides
da Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991

Colobosauroides is a small genus of lizards in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The genus Colobosauroides is endemic to Brazil.

Geographic range

Species in the genus Colobosauroides are found in northeastern Brazil, in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Ceará.

Species

The genus Colobosauroides includes only the following two species:

Etymology

The specific name, carvalhoi, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Antenor Leitão de Carvalho.

References

  1. 1 2 "Colobosauroides ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gymnophthalmidae.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Colobosauroides ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
  3. ↑ 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. (Colobosauroides carvalhoi, p. 49).

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