Contomastix leachei

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = Arzamendia V, Fitzgerald L, Giraudo A, Kacoliris F, Montero R, Pelegrin N, Scrocchi G, Williams J (2019). "Contomastix leachei ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T50012229A50012242.en. Accessed on 23 December 2024.

| genus = Contomastix

| species = leachei

| authority = (Peracca, 1897)

| synonyms = *Cnemidophorus leachei
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Contomastix leachei is a species of lizard in the family Teiidae. The species is endemic to Argentina.{{NRDB species|genus=Contomastix|species=leachei|accessdate=24 June 2019}}

Etymology

The specific name, leachei, is in honor of Argentinian landowner Don Francisco Leache who was the kind host of Italian ornithologist Alfredo Borelli, who collected the holotype.Beolens B, Watkins M,

Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Cnemidophorus leachei, p. 153).

Geographic range

C. leachei is found in northwestern Argentina, in the provinces of Jujuy and Salta.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of C. leachei is forest.

Reproduction

C. leachei is oviparous.

Taxonomy

C. leachei is a member of the C. lacertoides species group.