''Colobosauroides'' is a small

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

of lizards in the

family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...

Gymnophthalmidae Gymnophthalmidae is a family of lizards with at least 250 species, sometimes known commonly as spectacled lizards or microteiids. They are called "spectacled" because of their transparent lower eyelids, which allow them to still see with closed ...

."''Colobosauroides'' ". ''Dahms Tierleben''. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gymnophthalmidae."''Colobosauroides'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org The genus ''Colobosauroides'' is

endemic 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 elsew ...

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 ...

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Species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

in the genus ''Colobosauroides'' are found in northeastern Brazil, in the Brazilian states of

Bahia Bahia ( , , ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (sta ...

and

Ceará Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...

Species

The genus ''Colobosauroides'' includes only the following two species: *'' Colobosauroides carvalhoi'' M. Soares & Caramaschi, 1998 *''

Colobosauroides cearensis ''Colobosauroides cearensis'' is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. It is endemic to Northeast Brazil. The species lives in leaf litter Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, litterfall or duff) is dead pla ...

'' da Cunha, Lima-Verde &

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, 1991

Etymology

The

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, ''carvalhoi'', is in honor of Brazilian

herpetologist Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and rept ...

Antenor Leitão de Carvalho Antenor Leitão de Carvalho is a Brazilian herpetologist and ichthyologist, born on 15 April 1910 and died on 11 December 1985 in Rio de Janeiro. Taxa named in his honor * '' Pipa carvalhoi'' * '' Plecostomus carvalhoi'' * '' Discocystus c ...

.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Colobosauroides carvalhoi'', p. 49).

References

). * Soares M, Caramaschi U (1998). "''Espécie nova de'' Colobosauroides ''Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991 do estado da Bahia, Brasil (Squamata, Sauria, Gymnophthalmidae)''". ''Bol. Mus. Nac. Nov. Sér., Rio de Janeiro'' 388: 1–8. (''Colobosauroides carvalhoi'', new species). (in Portuguese). Spectacled lizards of Brazil Endemic reptiles of Brazil Lizard genera Taxa named by Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha Taxa named by José Santiago Lima-Verde Taxa named by Almira Cláudia Marinho Lima {{Gymnophthalmidae-stub

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