''Acratosaura spinosa'', the spiny colobosaura, is a species of

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 alt ...

in the family Gymnophthalmidae. It is endemic to

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 ...

References

Acratosaura Reptiles described in 2009 Taxa named by Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues Taxa named by José Cassimiro Taxa named by Marco A. de Freitas Taxa named by Thais F. Santos Silva {{lizard-stub