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Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechuan languages, Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar language, Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechuan languages, Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar language, Shuar: ''Ekuatur Nunka''), is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about west of the mainland. The country's Capital city, capital and largest city is Quito. The territories of modern-day Ecuador were once home to a variety of Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, Indigenous groups that were gradually incorporated into the Inca Empire during the 15th century. The territory was Spanish colonization of the Americas, colonized by Spain during the 16th century, achieving independence in 1820 as part of Gran Colombia, from which it ...
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Reptile Database
The Reptile Database is a scientific database that collects taxonomic information on all living reptile species (i.e. no fossil species such as dinosaurs). The database focuses on species (as opposed to higher ranks such as families) and has entries for all currently recognized ~13,000 species and their subspecies, although there is usually a lag time of up to a few months before newly described species become available online. The database collects scientific and common names, synonyms, literature references, distribution information, type information, etymology, and other taxonomically relevant information. History The database was founded in 1995 as EMBL Reptile Database when the founder, Peter Uetz, was a graduate student at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. Thure Etzold had developed the first web interface for the EMBL DNA sequence database which was also used as interface for the Reptile Database. In 2006 the database moved to The Ins ...
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Selvasaura
''Selvasaura'' is a genus of the lizard family Gymnophthalmidae. The genus contains three species. Species *'' Selvasaura almendarizae'' . - Almendáriz's microtegu *'' Selvasaura brava'' . - Brave forest microtegu *'' Selvasaura candesi'' . - CANDES microtegu. *'' Selvasaura evasa'' . - Elusive microtegu. *'' Selvasaura mamaduluae'' .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 - Cordillera del Cóndor's microtegu. References Selvasaura {{Lizard-stub ...
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