Loxopholis

Loxopholis

Loxopholis rugiceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gymnophthalmidae
Genus:	Loxopholis Cope, 1869
Type species
Loxopholis rugiceps Cope, 1869
Species
11 species (see text)

Loxopholis is a genus of lizards in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The genus is endemic to South America.

Species

The genus Loxopholis contains 11 species which are recognized as being valid.

Loxopholis caparensis (Esqueda, 2005)
Loxopholis ferreirai (Rodrigues & Ávila-Pires, 2005)
Loxopholis guianense (Ruibal, 1952)
Loxopholis hexalepis (Ayala & Harris, 1982) – six-scaled tegu
Loxopholis ioanna (Uzzell & Barry, 1971)
Loxopholis osvaldoi (Ávila-Pires, 1995)
Loxopholis parietalis (Cope, 1886) – common root lizard
Loxopholis percarinatum (L. Müller, 1923) – Müller's tegu
Loxopholis rugiceps Cope, 1869
Loxopholis snethlageae (Ávila-Pires, 1995)
Loxopholis southi (Ruthven & Gaige, 1924) – northern spectacled lizard

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Loxopholis.

References

↑ Genus Loxopholis at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

Cope ED (1869). "Sixth Contribution to the HERPETOLOGY of South America". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 20: 305–313. (Loxopholis, new genus, p. 305; L. rugiceps, new species, pp. 305–306).

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