Riolama
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Riolama is a small genus of lizards in the family Gymnophthalmidae.
Geographic range
The genus Riolama found in Venezuela and Brazil.[1]
Species
The genus Riolama contains 6 species:[1]
- Riolama grandis Recoder, Prates, Marques-Souza, Camacho, Sales-Nunes, Vechio, Ghellere, McDiarmid, & Rodrigues, 2020Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Riolama inopinata Kok, 2015Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Riolama leucosticta (Boulenger, 1900)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". - white-spotted riolama
- Riolama luridiventris Esqueda, La Marca & Praderio, 2004Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Riolama stellata Recoder, Prates, Marques-Souza, Camacho, Sales-Nunes, Vechio, Ghellere, McDiarmid, & Rodrigues, 2020Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Riolama uzzelli Molina & Señaris, 2003Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Riolama.
Relatives of the Riolama, nicknamed "The Night Sky" and "The Brown Giant" were discovered by scientists in the Pico da Neblina National Park, Brazil in 2018.[2]
References
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- ↑ a b Riolama at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 26 January 2015.
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Further reading
- Uzzell T (1973). "A Revision of Lizards of the Genus Prionodactylus, with a New Genus for P. leucostictus and Notes on the Genus Euspondylus (Sauria, Teiidae)". Postilla, Peabody Mus., Yale Univ. (159): 1-67. (Riolama, new genus, pp. 52–55).