''Micrablepharus'' is a small
genus
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of
lizard
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s
endemic
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to
South America
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Species
There are two
species
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*'' Micrablepharus atticolus''
*'']Micrablepharus maximiliani
'' Micrablepharus maximiliani'' is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. It is found in Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Peru
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''Nota bene
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'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a different genus, in this case a genus other than ''Micrablepharus''.
Etymology
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In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
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, ''maximiliani'', is in honor of German naturalist
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Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied
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.[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Micrablepharus maximiliani'', p. 171).]
References
Further reading
* Boettger O (1885). "''Liste von Reptilien und Batrachiern aus Paraguay'' ". ''Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften'' ( Halle) 58: 213–248. (''Micrablepharus'', new genus, p. 217). (in German and Latin).
* Boulenger GA (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II ... Teiidæ ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Genus ''Micrablepharus'', p. 426; species ''M. maximiliani'', pp. 426–427).
* Reinhardt J, Lütken C (1862). "''Bidrag til Kundskab om Brasiliens Padder og Krybdr. Förste Afdeling: Padderne og Öglerne'' ". ''Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn'' 1861 (10-15): 143–242. (''Gymnophthalmus maximiliani'', new species, pp. 211–214 + Plate V, figures 6a-6g). (in Danish).
* Rodrigues MT (1996). "A New Species of Lizard, Genus ''Micrablepharus'' (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), from Brazil ". ''Herpetologica'' 52 (4): 535–541. (''Micrablepharus atticolus'', new species).
Spectacled lizards of Brazil
Lizard genera
Taxa named by Oskar Boettger
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