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Alopoglossus Amazonius
''Alopoglossus amazonius'', the Amazonanian teiid, is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae ''Alopoglossus'' is a genus of lizards in the monogeneric family Alopoglossidae. The genus is distributed from Costa Rica in Central America to northern South America. Species The genus ''Alopoglossus'' contains the following 32 valid specie .... It is endemic to Brazil. References Alopoglossus Reptiles of Brazil Endemic fauna of Brazil Reptiles described in 1924 Taxa named by Alexander Grant Ruthven {{lizard-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Grant Ruthven
Alexander Grant Ruthven (April 1, 1882 – January 19, 1971) was a herpetologist, zoologist and the President of the University of Michigan from 1929 to 1951. Biography Alexander Grant Ruthven was born in 1882 in Hull, Iowa. He graduated from Morningside College in 1903. In 1906, he received a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Michigan. He worked as a professor, director of the University Museum, and Dean. He became the President in 1929. As such, he promoted a corporate administrative structure. He also approved of police raids against rum-running, bootleggers at fraternities. He retired in 1951, and died in 1971. He is buried at Forest Hill Cemetery (Ann Arbor, Michigan), Forest Hill Cemetery which is adjacent to the university. The work of Ruthven on the familiar garter snakes, published in 1908, may be regarded as founding an essentially new school of herpetology in the United States. This was a revision of a genus, carried out by the examination of large numbers of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia although some lizards are more closely related to these two excluded groups than they are to other lizards. Lizards range in size from chameleons and geckos a few centimeters long to the 3-meter-long Komodo dragon. Most lizards are quadrupedal, running with a strong side-to-side motion. Some lineages (known as "legless lizards"), have secondarily lost their legs, and have long snake-like bodies. Some such as the forest-dwelling ''Draco'' lizards are able to glide. They are often territorial, the males fighting off other males and signalling, often with bright colours, to attract mates and to intimidate rivals. Lizards are mainly carnivorous, often being sit-and-wait predators; many smaller species eat insects, while the Komodo eats mammals a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alopoglossidae
''Alopoglossus'' is a genus of lizards in the monogeneric family Alopoglossidae. The genus is distributed from Costa Rica in Central America to northern South America. Species The genus ''Alopoglossus'' contains the following 32 valid species: *'' Alopoglossus amazonius'' – Amazonanian teiid *'' Alopoglossus andeanus'' *'' Alopoglossus angulatus'' – northern teiid *''Alopoglossus atriventris'' – keel-bellied shade lizard *'' Alopoglossus avilapiresae'' *'' Alopoglossus bicolor'' – Werner's largescale lizard *'' Alopoglossus bilineatus'' *'' Alopoglossus brevifrontalis'' – Boulenger's largescale lizard *'' Alopoglossus buckleyi'' – Buckley's teiid *'' Alopoglossus carinicaudatus'' – northern teiid *'' Alopoglossus collii'' *'' Alopoglossus copii'' – drab shade lizard *'' Alopoglossus danieli'' – Daniel's largescale lizard *'' Alopoglossus embera'' *'' Alopoglossus eurylepis'' – largescale lizard *'' Alopoglossus festae'' *'' Alopoglossus g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 States of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alopoglossus
''Alopoglossus'' is a genus of lizards in the monogeneric family Alopoglossidae. The genus is distributed from Costa Rica in Central America to northern South America. Species The genus ''Alopoglossus'' contains the following 32 valid species: *'' Alopoglossus amazonius'' – Amazonanian teiid *'' Alopoglossus andeanus'' *'' Alopoglossus angulatus'' – northern teiid *'' Alopoglossus atriventris'' – keel-bellied shade lizard *'' Alopoglossus avilapiresae'' *'' Alopoglossus bicolor'' – Werner's largescale lizard *'' Alopoglossus bilineatus'' *'' Alopoglossus brevifrontalis'' – Boulenger's largescale lizard *'' Alopoglossus buckleyi'' – Buckley's teiid *'' Alopoglossus carinicaudatus'' – northern teiid *'' Alopoglossus collii'' *'' Alopoglossus copii'' – drab shade lizard *'' Alopoglossus danieli'' – Daniel's largescale lizard *'' Alopoglossus embera'' *'' Alopoglossus eurylepis'' – largescale lizard *'' Alopoglossus festae'' *'' Alopoglossus gan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reptiles Of Brazil
Total number of species = 976 ''Nota bene'': In the following list, a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than the genus to which it is currently assigned. Testudines Cheloniidae (4 species) *''Caretta caretta'' (Linnaeus, 1758) *''Chelonia mydas'' (Linnaeus, 1758) *''Eretmochelys imbricata'' (Linnaeus, 1766) *''Lepidochelys olivacea'' (Eschscholtz, 1829) Dermochelyidae (1 species) *''Dermochelys coriacea'' (Linnaeus, 1766) Emydidae (2 species) *'' Trachemys adiutrix'' Vanzolini, 1995 *''Trachemys dorbigni'' ( A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835) Geoemydidae (1 species) *'' Rhinoclemmys punctularia'' (Daudin, 1801) Kinosternidae (1 species) *'' Kinosternon scorpioides'' (Linnaeus, 1766) Testudinidae (2 species) *''Geochelone carbonaria'' Spix, 1824 *''Geochelone denticulata'' (Linnaeus, 1766) Podocnemididae (5 species) *''Peltocephalus dumerilianus'' (Schweigger, 1812) *''Podocnemis erythrocephala'' (Spix, 1824 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic Fauna Of Brazil
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reptiles Described In 1924
Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians (tuatara). As of March 2022, the Reptile Database includes about 11,700 species. In the traditional Linnaean classification system, birds are considered a separate class to reptiles. However, crocodilians are more closely related to birds than they are to other living reptiles, and so modern cladistic classification systems include birds within Reptilia, redefining the term as a clade. Other cladistic definitions abandon the term reptile altogether in favor of the clade Sauropsida, which refers to all amniotes more closely related to modern reptiles than to mammals. The study of the traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology. The earliest known proto-reptiles originated around 31 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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