Glaucomastix Explained

Glaucomastix is a genus of lizards that belongs to the family Teiidae. The genus is endemic to Brazil.

Species

The genus Glaucomastix contains the following five species, listed alphabetically by specific name.^[1]

• Glaucomastix abaetensis – Bahian sand dune lizard
• Glaucomastix cyanura
• Glaucomastix itabaianensis
• Glaucomastix littoralis
• Glaucomastix venetacauda

Nota bene

A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Glaucomastix.

Further reading

• Noemí Goicoechea . Goicoechea . N . Darrel Frost . Frost . DR . Ignacio J. De la Riva . De la Riva . I . Katia Cristina Machado Pellegrino . Pellegrino . KCM . Jack W. Sites Jr . Sites . J Jr . Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues . Rodrigues . MT . José Manuel Padial . Padial . JM . 2016 . Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment . Cladistics . 32 . 6 . 624–671 . 10.1111/cla.12150. 34727678 . (Glaucomastix, new genus, p. 671).

Notes and References

1. www.reptile-database.org