Riama

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: Cercosaurini
Genus: Riama
Species (15): R. anatoloros – R. balneator – R. cashcaensis – R. colomaromani – R. columbiana – R. inanis – R. labionis – R. meleagris – R. orcesi – R. raneyi – R. simotera – R. stigmatoral – R. striata – R. unicolor – R. yumborum
Name

Riama Gray, 1858: 445

Type species: Riama unicolor , 1858, by monotypy.
Synonyms

Emphrassotis O’Shaughnessy, 1879: 295 [synonymized with Proctoporus by Boulenger (1885: 412); with Riama by Doan & Castoe (2005) by implication]

Type species: Emphrassotis simoterus O’Shaughnessy, 1879, by monotypy.
References
Primary references

Gray, J.E. 1858. Description of Riama, a new genus of lizards, forming a distinct family. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1858: 444–446. BHL
O’Shaughnessy, A.W.E. 1879. Description of new species of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 5, 4(22): 295–303. DOI: 10.1080/00222937908679832 BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Aguirre-Peñafiel, V., Torres-Carvajal, O., Nunes, P.M.S., Peck, M.R. & Maddock, S.T. 2014. A new species of Riama Gray, 1858 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the tropical Andes. Zootaxa 3866(2): 246–260. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.2.4 Reference page.
Sánchez-Pacheco, S.J., Torres-Carvajal, O., Aguirre-Peñafiel, V., Nunes, P.M.S., Verrastro, L., Rivas, G.A., Rodrigues, M.T., Grant, T. & Murphy, R.W. 2018. Phylogeny of Riama (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), impact of phenotypic evidence on molecular datasets, and the origin of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta endemic fauna. Cladistics 34(3): 260–291. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12203 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Riama . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 25 June 2018.

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

The genus Riama contains 15 species which are recognized as being valid.[1]

Riama anatoloros (Kizirian, 1996)
Riama balneator (Kizirian, 1996)
Riama cashcaensis (Kizirian & Coloma, 1991) – Kizorian's lightbulb lizard
Riama colomaromani (Kizirian, 1996)
Riama columbiana (Andersson, 1914) – Colombian lightbulb lizard
Riama inanis (Doan & Schargel, 2003)
Riama labionis (Kizirian, 1996)
Riama meleagris (Boulenger, 1885) – brown lightbulb lizard
Riama orcesi (Kizirian, 1995)
Riama raneyi (Kizirian, 1996)
Riama simotera (O'Shaughnessy, 1879) – O'Shaughnessy's lightbulb lizard
Riama stigmatoral (Kizirian, 1996)
Riama striata (W. Peters, 1863) – striped lightbulb lizard,
Riama unicolor Gray, 1858 – drab lightbulb lizard
Riama yumborum Aguirre-Peñafiel, Torres-Carvajal, Sales-Nunes, Peck & Maddock, 2014

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

Genus Riama at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

Gray JE (1858). "Description of Riama, a New Genus of Lizards, forming a distinct Family". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Third Series 1858: 444–446. (Riama, new genus, p. 445; R. unicolor, new species, p. 446 + Plate XV, figure 2).