Stenocercus guentheri explained

Stenocercus guentheri, also known commonly as Günther's whorltail iguana and la guagsa de Günther in South American Spanish, is a species of lizard in the family Tropiduridae. The species is native to northwestern South America.

Etymology

The specific name, guentheri, is in honor of German-British herpetologist Albert Günther.^[1]

Geographic range

S. guentheri is found in Colombia and Ecuador.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of S. guentheri is shrubland, at altitudes of, but it has also been found in gardens, plantations, pastures, and urban areas.

Reproduction

S. guentheri is oviparous, and may provide some parental care.

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. (Liocephalus guentheri, new species, pp. 169–170 + Plate XIII, two views).
• Etheridge R (1966). "The Systematic Relationships of West Indian and South American Lizards Referred to the Iguanid Genus Leiocephalus ". Copeia 1966 (1): 79–91. (Ophryoessoides guentheri, new combination, p. 88).
• Fritts TH (1974). "A multivariate evolutionary analysis of the Andean iguanid lizards of the genus Stenocercus ". San Diego Society of Natural History, Memoir (7): 1–89. (Stenocercus guentheri, new combination, p. 54–55 + Figures 19–21 on p. 77).
• Torres-Carvajal O (2000). "Ecuadorian Lizards of the Genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Tropiduridae)". Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas (15): 1–38. (Stenocercus guentheri, pp. 17–21). (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).

Notes and References

1. [species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]