Yanomamia hoogmoedi explained

Yanomamia hoogmoedi is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The species is endemic to Guyana.

Etymology

The specific name, hoogmoedi, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Marinus Steven Hoogmoed.^[1]

The preferred natural habitat of Y. hoogmoedi is forest, at altitudes around .

Y. hoogmoedi is oviparous.

Goicoechea N, Frost DR, De la Riva I, Pellegrino KCM, Sites J Jr, Rodrigues MT, 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. (Loxopholis hoogmoedi, new combination).
Kok PJR (2008). "A new highland species of Arthrosaura Boulenger, 1885 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Maringma tepui on the border of Guyana and Brazil". Zootaxa 1909: 1–15. (Arthrosaura hoogmoedi, new species).
Pellegrino KCM, Brunes TO, Souza SM, Laguna MM, Avila-Pires TCS, Hoogmoed MS, Rodrigues MT (2018). "On the distinctivness of Amapasaurus, its relationship with Loxopholis Cope 1869, and description of a new genus for L. guianensis and L. hoogmoedi (Gymnophthalmoidea/Ecpleopodini: Squamata)". Zootaxa 4441 (2): 332–346. (Yanomamia hoogmoedi, new combination).