''Tupinambis quadrilineatus'', the four-lined tegu, 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 Teiidae. 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 ...

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Tupinambis Reptiles described in 1997 Taxa named by Paulo Roberto Manzani Taxa named by Augusto Shinya Abe {{lizard-stub