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Alopoglossus copii

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. |author-link=species:Diego Francisco CisnerosHeredia |author2=Perez, J. |author3=Gagliardi, G. |author3-link=species:Giussepe Gagliardi-Urrutia |date=2016 |title=Alopoglossus copii |volume=2016 |page=e.T44578102A44578105 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T44578102A44578105.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| genus = Alopoglossus

| species = copii

| authority = Boulenger, 1885

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Alopoglossus copii, known commonly as the drab shade lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is native to northwestern South America.

Etymology

The specific name, copii, is in honor of American herpetologist Edward Drinker Cope.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}}. (Alopoglossus copii, p. 59).

Geographic range

A. copii is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.{{NRDB species|genus=Alopoglossus|species=copii|accessdate=5 July 2019}}

Habitat

The preferred habitat of A. copii is forest at altitudes of {{convert|310|–|1,390|m|ft|abbr=on}}.

Reproduction

A. copii is oviparous.

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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. (Alopoglossus copii, new species, pp. 383–384 + Plate XX, figures 1, 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d).
  • Duellman WE (1978). "The Biology of an Equatorial Herpetofauna in Amazonian Ecuador". University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Miscellaneous Publications (65): 1–352. (Alopoglossus copii, p. 210, Figure 123).
  • Goicoechea N, Frost DR, De la Riva I, Pellegrino KCM, Sites J, Rodrigues MT, Padial JM (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.
  • Köhler G, Diethert H-H, Veselý M (2012). "A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Lizard Genus Alopoglossus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)". Herpetological Monographs 26 (1): 173–188. (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).

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Category:Alopoglossus

Category:Reptiles described in 1885

Category:Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger

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