Selvasaura Explained

Selvasaura is a genus of the lizard family Gymnophthalmidae. The genus contains three species.^[1]

Species

• Selvasaura almendarizae .^[2] - Almendáriz's microtegu
• Selvasaura brava .^[3] - Brave forest microtegu
• Selvasaura candesi .^[4] - CANDES microtegu.
• Selvasaura evasa .^[5] - Elusive microtegu.
• Selvasaura mamaduluae .^[6] - Cordillera del Cóndor's microtegu.

Notes and References

1. www.reptile-database.org.
2. O. Torres-Carvajal, Parra V., Sales-Nunes P.M., Koch C., 2021. A New Species of Microtegu Lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae) from Amazonian Ecuador. Journal of Herpetology 55 (4): 385–395. DOI: 10.1670/20-142
3. Moravec J, Šmíd J, Štundl J, Lehr E 2018. Systematics of Neotropical microteiid lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae), with the description of a new genus and species from the Andean montane forests. ZooKeys 774: 105-139. DOI:10.3897/zookeys.774.25332
4. G. Chávez, L. A. García-Ayachi and A. Catenazzi. 2023. A New Species of Microteiid Lizard (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurini, Selvasaura) from A Remote Area in the Peruvian Andes. Evolutionary Systematics. 7(1): 123-132. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.7.99118
5. L. Y. Echevarría, Venegas P. J., García-Ayachi L. A., Nunes P.M.S, 2021. An elusive new species of gymnophthalmid lizard (Cercosaurinae, Selvasaura) from the Andes of northern Peru. Evolutionary Systematics 5(2): 177-187. DOI:10.3897/evolsyst.5.68520
6. David Brito-Zapata, Juan M. Guayasamin, Vanessa Parra, Omar Torres-Carvajal and Carolina Reyes-Puig. 2023. A New Species of Microtegu (Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae) of the Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador. Revista Latinoamericana De Herpetología 6(2): 17–37. DOI: 10.22201/fc.25942158e.2023.2.575