Stenocercus festae

Stenocercus festae
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Tropiduridae
Genus:	Stenocercus
Species:	S. festae
Binomial name
	Stenocercus festae; (Peracca, 1897)
Synonyms
	Leiocephalus festae ; Peracca, 1897; Ophryoessoides festae ; — J. Peters et al., 1970; Stenocercus festae ; — Fritts, 1974;

Stenocercus festae, also known commonly as Peracca's whorltail iguana and Peracca's whorl-tailed iguana, is a species of lizard in the family Tropiduridae. The species is endemic to Ecuador.

Etymology

The specific name, festae, is in honor of Italian zoologist Enrico Festa.

S. festae is found in southern Ecuador, on both the eastern slope and the western slope of the Andes, in the provinces of Azuay, Cañar, and Loja.

The preferred natural habitats of S. festae are forest, and above the tree line shrubland, at altitudes of 2,300–3,200 m (7,500–10,500 ft).

S. festae may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 7.8 cm (3.1 in), with a tail length of 15 cm (5.9 in).

S. festae is oviparous.

1 2 3 Cisneros-Heredia, D.F.; Valencia, J.; Brito, J.; Almendáriz, A.; Munoz, G. (2017). "Stenocercus festae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017 e.T178306A54446402. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T178306A54446402.en. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
1 2 3 4 Stenocercus festae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 April 2022.
↑ 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. (Stenocercus festae, p. 89).
↑ Perraca MG (1897).

Fritts TH (1974). "A multivariate evolutionary analysis of the Andean Iguanid lizards of the genus Stenocercus ". San Diego Society of Natural History Memoir 7: 1–89. (Stenocercus festae, new combination, pp. 49–51 + Figure 37 on p. 81).
Peracca MG (1897). "Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nell'Ecuador e regioni vicine. IV. ". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R[egia]. Università di Torino 12 (300): 1–20. (Leiocephalus festae, new species, pp. 6–7, including drawing of scalation of ear opening). (in Italian).
Torres-Carvajal O (2000). "Ecuadorian Lizards of the Genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Tropiduridae)". Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas (15): 1–38. (Stenocercus festae, pp. 15–17, Figure 8). (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).
Torres-Carvajal O, Schulte JA II, Cadle JE (2006). "Phylogenetic relationships of South American lizards of the genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Iguania): A new approach using a general mixture model for gene sequence data". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39 (1): 171–185.

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Stenocercus festae

Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Tropiduridae
Genus:	Stenocercus
Species:	S. festae
Binomial name
*Stenocercus festae* (Peracca, 1897)
Synonyms
Leiocephalus festae Peracca, 1897 Ophryoessoides festae — J. Peters et al., 1970 Stenocercus festae — Fritts, 1974