Cercosaura schreibersii

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| image = Cercosaura schreibersii na Estação Ecológica de Santa Bárbara por Giordano Rossi (16).jpg

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = Carreira S, Kacoliris F, Pelegrin N, Montero R, Moravec J, Gonzales L, Aparicio J, Avila-Pires TCS, Nogueira CC (2019). "Cercosaura schreibersii ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T178697A61324472. Downloaded on 21 July 2019.

| genus = Cercosaura

| species = schreibersii

| authority = Wiegmann, 1834

| synonyms = *Cercosaura schreibersii
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Pantodactylus schreibersii
{{small|— Boulenger, 1885}}
Cercosaura schreibersii
{{small|— Bauer & R. Günther, 1994}}

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Cercosaura schreibersii, known commonly as Schreibers's many-fingered teiid or the long-tailed little lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The species is endemic to South America.{{NRDB species|genus=Cercosaura|species=schreibersii|accessdate=21 July 2019}}

Etymology

The specific name, schreibersii, is in honor of Austrian naturalist Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers.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}}. (Cercosaura schreibersi, p. 238).

Geographic range

C. schreibersii is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of C. schreibersii are forest, savanna, shrubland, and grassland.

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.

Cercosaura schreibersii albostrigatus {{small|(Griffin, 1917)}}
Cercosaura schreibersii schreibersii {{small|Wiegmann, 1834}}

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Cercosaura.

Reproduction

C. schreibersii is oviparous.