Alopoglossus buckleyi explained

Alopoglossus buckleyi, also known commonly as Buckley's shade lizard and Buckley's teiid, is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is native to northwestern South America.

Etymology

The specific name, buckleyi, is in honor of Clarence Buckley (1839–1889) who collected the holotype.^[1]

Geographic range

A. buckleyi is found in Brazil (Amazonas, Acre), Colombia (Amazonas), eastern Ecuador, and eastern Peru (Loreto).

Habitat

The natural habitat of A. buckleyi is forest at altitudes of 230–.

Description

A. buckleyi is a small species of lizard. The holotype has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 5.1cm (02inches).^[2]

Reproduction

A. buckleyi is oviparous.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Teiidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Alopoglossus buckleyi, new combination, p. 385).
• Köhler G, Diethert H-H, Veselý M (2012). "A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Lizard Genus Alopoglossus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)". Herpetological Monographs 26 (1): 173–188. (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).
• O'Shaughnessy AWE (1881). "An Account of the Collection of Lizards made by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador, and now in the British Museum, with Descriptions of the new Species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 227-245 + Plates XXII-XXV. (Leposoma buckleyi, new species, pp. 233–235 + Plate XXII, figures 2, 2a, 2b).
• Ribeiro-Júnior MA, Amaral S (2017). "Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. 4. Alopoglossidae, Gymnophthalmidae". Zootaxa 4269 (2): 151–196.

Notes and References

1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Alopoglossus buckleyi, p. 42).
2. [George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]