Pristidactylus

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 Toxicofera
Subordo: Iguania
Infraordo: Pleurodonta

Familia: Leiosauridae
Subfamilia: Leiosaurinae
Genus: Pristidactylus
Species (10): P. achalensis – P. alvaroi – P. araucanus – P. casuhatiensis – P. fasciatus – P. nigroiugulus – P. scapulatus – P. torquatus – P. valeriae – P. volcanensis
Name

Pristidactylus Fitzinger, 1843: 16

Type species: Leiosaurus fasciatus d’Orbigny, 1837, by original designation.

Synonyms

Ptenodactylus Gray, 1845: 224 [as a subgenus of Leiosaurus]
Type species: Leiosaurus fasciatus d'Orbigny 1837, by monotypy.
Cupriguanus Gallardo, 1964: 127 [synonymised by Etheridge (1976: 10)]
Type species: Cupriguanus achalensis Gallardo, 1964, by subsequent designation by Gallardo (1967: 56).

References
Primary references

Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page.
Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman: London. xxvii + 289 pp. BHL Reference page.
Gallardo, J.M. 1964. Los generos Urostrophus D. et B. y Cupriguanus gen. nov. (Sauria, Iguanidae) y sus especies. Neotropica 10: 125–136.
Gallardo, J.M. 1967. A proposito del genero Cupriguanus Gallardo (Sauria, Iguanidae). Neotropica 13(41): 56.

Additional references

Etheridge, R.E. & Williams, E.E. 1985. Notes of Pristidactylus (Squamata: Iguanidae). Breviora 483: 1–18. BHL Reference page.
Cei, J.M., Scolaro, J.A. & Videla, F. 2001. The present status of Argentinean polychrotid species of the genus Pristidactylus and description of its southernmost taxon as a new species. Journal of Herpetology 35(4): 597–605. DOI: 10.2307/1565897 Paywall Reference page.
Cei, J.M., Scolaro, J.A. & Videla, F. 2004. An updated biosystematic approach to the leiosaurid genus Pristidactylus. Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino 21(1): 159–191. PDF Reference page.
Morando, M., Olave, M., Ávila, L.J., Baker, E. & Sites, Jr., J.W. 2015. Molecular Phylogeny of the Lizard Clade Leiosaurae Endemic to Southern South America. Herpetologica 71(4): 322–331. DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-14-00067 Open access Reference page.
Minoli, I. & Ávila, L.J. 2017. Conservation assessments in climate change scenarios: spatial perspectives for present and future in two Pristidactylus (Squamata: Leiosauridae) lizards from Argentina. Zootaxa 4237(1): 91–111. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.5 Paywall Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2021. Pristidactylus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 2 October 2019.
Pristidactylus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Pristidactylus – Taxon details on Interim Register of Marine and Non-marine Genera (IRMNG).

Pristidactylus is a genus of lizards from Chile and Argentina.[1][2]
Species

Pristidactylus contains ten recognized species:[1]

Pristidactylus achalensis (Gallardo, 1964) - Argentine anole
Pristidactylus alvaroi (Donoso-Barros, 1975)
Pristidactylus araucanus (Gallardo, 1964)
Pristidactylus casuhatiensis (Gallardo, 1968) - Casuhatien anole
Pristidactylus fasciatus (d'Orbigny & Bibron, 1837) - D'Orbigny's banded anole
Pristidactylus nigroiugulus Cei [es], Scolaro, and Videla, 2001
Pristidactylus scapulatus (Burmeister, 1861) - Burmeister's anole
Pristidactylus torquatus (Philippi, 1861)
Pristidactylus valeriae (Donoso-Barros, 1966)
Pristidactylus volcanensis Lamborot and Díaz, 1987

References

Pristidactylus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 16 June 2020.
Cei, José Miguel; Scolaro, José Alejandro & Videla, Fernando (2001). "The present status of Argentinean polychrotid species of the genus Pristidactylus and description of its southernmost taxon as a new species". Journal of Herpetology. 35 (4): 597–605. doi:10.2307/1565897. JSTOR 1565897.