''Colobosauroides'' is a small

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of lizards in the

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Gymnophthalmidae Gymnophthalmidae is a family of lizards with at least 250 species, sometimes known commonly as spectacled lizards or microteiids. They are called "spectacled" because of their transparent lower eyelids, which allow them to still see with closed ...

."''Colobosauroides'' ". ''Dahms Tierleben''. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gymnophthalmidae."''Colobosauroides'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org The genus ''Colobosauroides'' is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

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Species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

in the genus ''Colobosauroides'' are found in northeastern Brazil, in the Brazilian states of

Bahia Bahia () is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Mina ...

and

Ceará Ceará (, ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. It is the List of Brazilian states by population, eighth-largest Brazilian State by ...

Species

The genus ''Colobosauroides'' includes only the following two species: *''

Colobosauroides carvalhoi ''Colobosauroides carvalhoi'' is a species of lizard in the Family (biology), family Gymnophthalmidae. The species is native to Northeast Region, Brazil. Etymology The Specific name (zoology), specific name, ''carvalhoi'', is in honor of Brazil ...

'' M. Soares & Caramaschi, 1998 *'' Colobosauroides cearensis'' da Cunha, Lima-Verde &

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, 1991

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 ...

, ''carvalhoi'', is in honor of Brazilian

herpetologist Herpetology (from Ancient Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, salamanders, and caecilians (Gymnophiona)) and reptiles (in ...

Antenor Leitão de Carvalho Antenor Leitão de Carvalho was a Brazilian herpetologist and Ichthyology, ichthyologist, born on 15 April 1910 and died on 11 December 1985 in Rio de Janeiro. Taxa named in his honor * ''Hypostomus carvalhoi'' is a species of catfish in the ...

.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Colobosauroides carvalhoi'', p. 49).

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