Kentropyx
| Kentropyx | |
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| Kentropyx pelviceps (forest whiptail) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Teiidae |
| Subfamily: | Teiinae |
| Genus: | Kentropyx Spix, 1825[1] |
| Species | |
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9 species, see text. | |
Kentropyx is a genus of whiptail lizards in the family Teiidae. The genus is endemic to South America including Trinidad and Barbados.[2]
Species
[edit]There are nine valid species in this genus (listed alphabetically by specific name).[2]
- Kentropyx altamazonica (Cope, 1876) – Cocha whiptail
- Kentropyx borckiana (W. Peters, 1869) – Guyana kentropyx
- Kentropyx calcarata Spix, 1825 – striped forest whiptail
- Kentropyx lagartija Gallardo, 1962 – Tucuman whiptail
- Kentropyx paulensis (Boettger, 1893) – Boettger's kentropyx
- Kentropyx pelviceps (Cope, 1868) – forest whiptail
- Kentropyx striata (Daudin, 1802) – Suriname striped whiptail
- Kentropyx vanzoi Gallagher & Dixon, 1980 – Gallagher's kentropyx
- Kentropyx viridistriga (Boulenger, 1894) – green kentropyx
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Kentropyx.
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- 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 "Centropyx [sic]", p. 339).
- Spix JB (1825). Animalia nova sive species nova lacertarum, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII – MDCCCXX jussu et auspicius Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae Regis. Munich: F.S. Hübschmann. iv + 26 pp. + Plates I–XXVIII. (Kentropyx, new genus, p. 21). (in Latin).