''Anisolepis grilli'',
commonly known as Boulenger's tree lizard and ''papa-vento-do-rabo-rajado'' in Brazilian Portuguese, is a
species
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of
lizard
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in the
family
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Leiosauridae
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Taxonomy
A 2022 phylogenetic study found the Leiosauridae to be the sist ...
.
The species is
endemic
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to South America.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''grilli'', is in honor of Italo-Brazilian physician
Giuseppe Franco Grillo.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Anisolepis grilli'', p. 108).]
Geographic range
''A. grilli'' is native to extreme northwestern
Argentina
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,
[ adjacent southeastern ]Brazil
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,[ and ]Uruguay
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.[
The type locality is ]Palmeira, Paraná
Palmeira is a municipality in the state of Paraná in Brazil, in the micro-region of Ponta Grossa. It is situated at south latitude 25º25'46" and west longitude 50º00'23", at an altitude of 865 meters and 70 km (43 mi) from the state' ...
, Brazil.[
]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat
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s of ''A. grilli'' are forest
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and grassland
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.
Reproduction
''A. grilli'' is oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zygotes outside the body (i.e., by laying or spawning) in metabolically independent incubation organs known as eggs, which nurture the embryo into moving offsprings kno ...
.[
]
References
Further reading
* Boulenger GA (1891). "Description of a new Iguanoid Lizard of the genus ''Anisolepis'' ". ''Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie Seconda'' 10: 909. (''Anisolepis grilli'', new species).
* Carvalho ALG, Laspiur A, Klaczko J, Rivas LR, Rodrigues MT, Sena MA (2023). "Total evidence phylogenetic analysis of Leiosauridae (Squamata) with focus on the 'para-anoles' and description of a new ''Urostrophus'' species from the Bolivian Andes". ''Systematics & Biodiversity'' 21 (1): 2200306. (''Urostrophus grilli'', new combination).
* Cei JM (1993). "''Reptiles del noroeste, nordeste y este de la Argentina'' ". ''Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino'' 14: 1–949 (in Spanish).
*Werner F Werner may refer to:
People
* Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name
Fictional characters
* Werner (comics), a German comic book character
* Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Raid ...
(1896). "''Die Iguaniden-Gattung ''Anisolepis'' Blngr.'' ". ''Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien'' 46: 470–473. (''Anisolepis grilli'', p. 471). (in German).
Anisolepis
Reptiles described in 1891
Lizards of Brazil
Reptiles of Argentina
Reptiles of Uruguay
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
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