Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Underwood's Spectacled Tegu, Underwcod's Spectaded Tegu
Description
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [1].
Ecology:
This species is found in open sunny places (sometimes within or adjacent
to forested areas, although the species has never been found in forest
)
where it lives between leaf litter
or grass
. This species has been
found in gardens and parks, and other areas modified by humans. (Ref.
275857).
List of Habitats
:
- 4 Grassland
- 4.5 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 4.6 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded
- 14 Artificial/Terrestrial
- 14.4 Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens [more info]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Subclass:
Diapsida
()
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
()
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
()
-
- Order:
Squamata
()
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
()
- Infraorder:
Scincomorpha
()
- Family:
Gymnophthalmidae
()
- Merrem, 1820
- Subfamily:
Gymnophthalminae
()
- Genus:
Gymnophthalmus
()
- Merrem, 1820
- Specific name:
underwoodi
- Grant, 1958
- Scientific name: - Gymnophthalmus underwoodi Grant, 1958
- Specific name:
underwoodi
- Grant, 1958
- Genus:
Gymnophthalmus
(
- Subfamily:
Gymnophthalminae
(
- Family:
Gymnophthalmidae
(
- Infraorder:
Scincomorpha
(
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
(
- Order:
Squamata
(
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
(
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
(
- Subclass:
Diapsida
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Gymnophthalmus underwoodi — Kizirian & Cole 1999 • Gymnophthalmus underwoodi — Pianka & Vitt 2003: 120 • Gymnophthalmus underwoodi — Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 411
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Holotype: UIMNH 42334. Named after Garth
Leon Underwood
(1919-2002), British herpetologist (obituary in Copeia 2003: 222-225).
Unisexual
and parthenogenetic species. Avila-Pires (1995) and GORZULA
& SEÑARIS (1999) treat close relatives of G. underwoodi (cryptus,
leucomystax, speciosus, underwoodi) as the G. underwoodi complex
,
which apparently form separate, but cryptic species
. KIZIRIAN &
COLE provide evidence that G. cryptus is the maternal species of
G. underwoodi.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Gymnophthalmus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species and subspecies in this genus:
G. cryptus (Cryptic Spectacled Tegu) · G. leucomystax (White Spectacied Tegu) · G. pleii (Rough-Scaled Worm Lizard) · G. speciosus (Golden Spectacled Tegu) · G. speciosus speciosus (Golden Spectacled Tegu) · G. underwoodi (Underwood's Spectacled Tegu)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Breviora. 1994 Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, [1952- url p. 18, p. 19.
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 146, p. 152, p. 153.
- The South American herpetofauna: its origin, evolution, and dispersal / William E. Duellman, editor. Lawrence, Kan.: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1979. url p. 296.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 31, 2012.
- Doan, T.M. 2010. Gymnophthalmus underwoodi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- TIGR Reptile Database . Release date: October 2, 2007
- Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2540231
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-3280
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 206977
- IUCN ID: 212447
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 131320
Footnotes
- Doan, T.M. 2010. Gymnophthalmus underwoodi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]
