Callopistes
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| Callopistes Temporal range:
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| File:Callopistes flavipunctatus.jpg | |
| False monitor (Callopistes flavipunctatus) | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Teiidae |
| Subfamily: | Callopistinae |
| Genus: | Callopistes Gravenhorst, 1838 |
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Callopistes is a genus of lizards in the family Teiidae. The genus contains two extant species, which are native to Ecuador, Peru, and Chile, as well as two fossil species found in Argentina.
Species
[edit | edit source]Listed alphabetically.[1]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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| File:Callopistes flavipunctatus.jpg | Callopistes flavipunctatus
(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) |
False monitor | Peru and Ecuador. |
| File:Callopistes maculatus.jpg | Callopistes maculatus
Gravenhorst, 1838 |
Spotted false monitor | Chile |
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Callopistes.
Fossils
[edit | edit source]| Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
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| †Callopistes bicuspidatus | Monte Hermoso Formation, Argentina[2] | |
| File:Callopistes rionegrensis.jpg | †Callopistes rionegrensis | Chichinales Formation, Argentina[3] |
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Callopistes. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Farola Monte Hermoso at Fossilworks.org
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Gravenhorst JLC (1838). "Beiträge zur genaueren Kenntniss einiger Eidechsengattungen ". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher / Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae 18 (2): 712–784. (Callopistes, new genus, pp. 743–744). (in German).
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