''Dendrosauridion'', the Yanesha tree microtegu, is a genus of the lizard family

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 ...

. The genus is

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, i.e. it has only one species, ''Dendrosauridion yanesha''. It occurs in

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.Dendrosauridion yanesha
in the

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References

Gymnophthalmidae Monotypic lizard genera Reptiles of Peru Endemic fauna of Peru Taxa named by Edgar Lehr Taxa named by Jiří Moravec (herpetologist) Taxa named by Mikael Lundberg Taxa named by Gunther Köhler Taxa named by Alessandro Catenazzi Taxa named by Jiří Šmíd {{Gymnophthalmidae-stub