Enyalioides annularis explained
Enyalioides annularis, known commonly as the ringed manticore or the ringed spinytail iguana, is a species of lizard in the family Hoplocercidae. The species is endemic to northwestern South America.
Geographic range
E. annularis is found in southern Colombia and eastern Ecuador on the eastern slopes of the Andes and adjacent lowlands.
Habitat and ecology
E. annularis inhabits tropical foothill forest and lower montane wet forest at elevations of 214m–1100mm (702feet–3,600feetm) above sea level. It is a burrowing species, excavating burrows about long and deep in the forest floor.
Description
Males grow to 1371NaN1 and females to 1181NaN1 in snout–vent length.
Reproduction
E. annularis is oviparous, laying 2–4 eggs.
Further reading
- Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. Iguanidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Hoplocercus annularis, pp. 200–201).
- 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". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1881: 227-245 + Plates XXII-XXV. (Hoplocercus annularis, new species, pp. 244–245 + Plate XXV, figure 2).
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