Alopoglossus

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata

Subordo: Lacertoidea
Superfamilia: Gymnophthalmoidea

Familia: Alopoglossidae
Genus: Alopoglossus
Species (8): A. angulatus – A. atriventris – A. buckleyi – A. copii – A. embera – A. festae – A. lehmanni – A. meloi – A. viridiceps
Name

Alopoglossus Boulenger, 1885: 383

Type species: Alopoglossus copii Boulenger, 1885.
References
Primary references

Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume 2. Iguanidae, Xenosauridae, Zonuridae, Anguidae, Aniellidae, Helodermatidae, Varanidae, Xantusiidae, Teiidae, Amphisbaenidae. Second edition. Trustees of the British Museum: London. xiii + 497 pp., 24 pls. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

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. DOI: 10.1655/HERPMONOGRAPHS-D-10-00011.1.
Torres-Carvajal, O. & Lobos, S.E. 2014. A new species of Alopoglossus lizard (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from the tropical Andes, with a molecular phylogeny of the genus. ZooKeys 410: 105–120. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.410.7401 Reference page.
Peloso, P.L.V. & Morales, C.H. 2017. Description of a New Species of Alopoglossus Boulenger, 1885 from Western Colombia (Gymnophthalmoidea). South American Journal of Herpetology 12(2): 89–98. DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-16-00059.1 Reference page.
Ribeiro-Júnior, M.A. 2018. A new species of Alopoglossus lizard (Squamata, Alopoglossidae) from the Southern Guiana Shield, northeastern Amazonia, with remarks on diagnostic characters to the genus Zootaxa 4422(1): 25–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.1.2. Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2021. Alopoglossus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 19 July 2019.

Alopoglossus is a genus of lizards in the monogeneric family Alopoglossidae.[1][2] The genus is distributed from Costa Rica in Central America to northern South America.[1]
Species

The genus Alopoglossus contains the following 29 valid species:[2]

Alopoglossus amazonius Ruthven, 1924 – Amazonanian teiid
Alopoglossus andeanus (Ruibal, 1952)
Alopoglossus angulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) – northern teiid
Alopoglossus atriventris Duellman, 1973 – keel-bellied shade lizard
Alopoglossus avilapiresae Ribeiro-Junior, Choueri, Lobos, Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, & Werneck, 2020
Alopoglossus bicolor (F. Werner, 1916) – Werner's largescale lizard
Alopoglossus bilineatus Boulenger, 1890
Alopoglossus brevifrontalis Boulenger, 1912 – Boulenger's largescale lizard
Alopoglossus buckleyi (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) – Buckley's teiid
Alopoglossus carinicaudatus (Cope, 1876) – northern teiid
Alopoglossus collii Ribeiro-Junior, Choueri, Lobos, Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, & Werneck, 2020
Alopoglossus copii Boulenger, 1885 – drab shade lizard
Alopoglossus danieli Harris, 1994 – Daniel's largescale lizard
Alopoglossus embera Peloso & Morales, 2017
Alopoglossus eurylepis Harris & Rueda, 1985 – largescale lizard
Alopoglossus festae (Peracca, 1896)
Alopoglossus gorgonae Harris, 1994
Alopoglossus grandisquamatus Rueda, 1985 – common largescale lizard
Alopoglossus harrisi Hernández-Morales, Sturaro, Sales-Nunes, Lotzkat, & Peloso, 2020
Alopoglossus kugleri Roux, 1927 – Kugler's largescale lizard
Alopoglossus lehmanni Ayala & Harris, 1984
Alopoglossus meloi Ribeiro-Júnior, 2018
Alopoglossus myersi Harris, 1994
Alopoglossus plicatus (Taylor, 1949) – Taylor's largescale lizard
Alopoglossus romaleos Harris, 1994
Alopoglossus stenolepis (Boulenger, 1908)
Alopoglossus theodorusi Ribeiro-Júnior, Meiri, & Fouquet, 2020
Alopoglossus vallensis Harris, 1994
Alopoglossus viridiceps Torres-Carvajal & Lobos, 2014[3] – green-headed shade lizard

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

Hernández Morales, Cristian; Sturaro, Marcelo J.; Nunes, Pedro M. Sales; Lotzkat, Sebastian & Peloso, Pedro L.V. (2020). "A species‐level total evidence phylogeny of the microteiid lizard family Alopoglossidae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea)". Cladistics. 36 (3): 301–321. doi:10.1111/cla.12407. PMID 34618959. S2CID 213010219.
Alopoglossus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 August 2020.

News Staff / Source (2014). "New Species of Shade Lizard Discovered in Ecuador". at Sci-News.com.

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, new genus, p. 383).