Ecpleopus

Ecpleopus is a genus of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The genus contains only one species, Ecpleopus gaudichaudii, which is endemic to Brazil.[3]

Ecpleopus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gymnophthalmidae
Genus: Ecpleopus
A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839[2]
Species:
E. gaudichaudii
Binomial name
Ecpleopus gaudichaudii
A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839[3]
Synonyms[3]

Etymology

The specific name, gaudichaudii, is in honor of French botanist Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré.[4]

References
  1. Colli, G.R., Fenker, J., Tedeschi, L., Bataus, Y.S.L., Uhlig, V.M., Lima, A., Nogueira, C. de C., Borges-Nojosa, D.M., Costa, G.C., de Moura, G.J.B., Winck, G., Silva, J.R.S., Viñas, L.V., Ribeiro Junior, M.A., Hoogmoed, M.S., Tinôco, M.S.T., Almeida-Santos, P., Valadão, R., de Oliveira, R.B., Avila-Pires, T.C.S., Ferreira, V.L. & de Menezes, V.A. 2019. Ecpleopus gaudichaudii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T134883848A135333738. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T134883848A135333738.pt. Downloaded on 23 July 2019.
  2. "Ecpleopus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Scincomorpha/Gymnophthalmidae.
  3. "Ecpleopus gaudichaudii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  4. 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. (Ecpleopus gaudichaudii, p. 99).

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. (Genus Ecpleopus, p. 401; species E. gaudichaudii, p. 401).
  • Duméril AMC, Bibron G (1839). Erpétologie générale ou Histoire naturelle complète des Reptiles. Tome cinquième [Volume 5]. Paris: Roret. viii + 854 pp. (Ecpleopus, new genus, pp. 434–436; Ecpleopus gaudichaudii, new species, pp. 436–438). (in French).
  • Uzzell, Thomas (1969). "The Status of the Genera Ecpleopus, Arthroseps, and Aspidolaemus (Sauria, Teiidae)". Postilla (135): 1-23.


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