Ecpleopodini

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: Gymnophthalmidae
Subfamilia: Cercosaurinae
Tribus: Ecpleopodini
Genera (12): Adercosaurus – Amapasaurus – Anotosaura – Arthrosaura – Colobosauroides – Dryadosaura – Kaieteurosaurus – Leposoma – Loxopholis – Marinussaurus – Pantepuisaurus – Yanomamia –
Name

Ecpleopodini Fitzinger, 1843: 21

Type species: Ecpleopus Duméril & Bibron, 1839.
Combinations

Ecleopoda Fitzinger, 1843: 21 [original combination, as a family]

References
Primary references

Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus, Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel, Vienna.

Additional references

Colli, G.R., Hoogmoed, M.S., Cannatella, D.C., Cassimiro, J., Gomes, J.O., Ghellere, J.M., Nunes, P.M.S., Pellegrino, K.C.M., Salerno, P.E., Souza, S.M. & Rodrigues, M.T. 2015. Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new genus and two new species of lizards from Brazilian Amazonia, with nomenclatural comments on the taxonomy of Gymnophthalmidae (Reptilia: Squamata). Zootaxa 4000(4): 401–427. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.4.1 Preview (PDF). Reference page.
Goicoechea, N., Frost, D.R., De la Riva, I.J., Pellegrino, K.C.M., Sites Jr., J.W., Rodrigues, M.T. & Padial, J.M. 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. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12150 Reference page.
Pellegrino, K.C.M., Bunes, T.O., Souza, S.M., Laguna, M.M., Avila-Pires, T.C.S., Hoogmoed, M.S. & Rodrigues, M.T.2018. On the distinctiveness of Amapasaurus, its relationship with Loxopholis Cope 1869, and description of a new genus for L. guianensis and L. hoogmoedi (Gymnophthalmoidea/Ecpleopodini: Squamata). Zootaxa 4441(2): 332–346. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.2.8 Paywall Reference page.