Anisolepis undulatus explained

Wiegmann's tree lizard (Anisolepis undulatus) is a species of lizard in the family Leiosauridae. The species is endemic to South America.

Geographic range

A. undulatus is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Habitat

The natural habitat of A. undulatus is temperate forests.

Reproduction

A. undulatus is oviparous.

Conservation status

A. undulatus is threatened by habitat loss.

Taxonomy and etymology

The junior synonym, Anisolepis iheringii, is the type species of the genus Anisolepis. The specific name, iheringii, is in honor of German-Brazilian zoologist Hermann von Ihering.^[1]

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1886). "A Synopsis of the Reptiles and Batrachians of the Province Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Fifth Series 18: 423–445. (Anisolepis undulatus, new combination, p. 426).
• Etheridge R, Williams EE (1991). "A Review of the South American Lizard Genera Urostrophus and Anisolepis (Squamata: Iguania: Polychridae)". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 152 (5): 317–361. (Anisolepis undulatus, pp. 339–344, Figures 7–10).
• Wiegmann AFA (1834). Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae, quae itineribus comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum Zoologicum Berolinense pervenerunt. Pars prima, saurorum species amplectens. Adiecto systematis saurorum prodromo, additisque multis in hunc amphibiorum ordinen observationibus. Berlin: C.G. Lüderitz. vi + 54 pp. + Plates I-X. (Laemanctus undulatus, new species, p. 46). (in Latin).

Notes and References

1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Anisolepis iheringii, p. 129).