''Tropidurus guarani'' is a
species
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of
lizard
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in the
family
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Tropiduridae
The Tropiduridae are a family of iguanid lizards."Tropiduridae". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. The family is sometimes considered a subfamily, Tropidurinae. The subfamily is native to South America, including the islands of Tri ...
.
The species is native to central
South America
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.
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 ...
, ''guarani'', refers to the
Guarani language
Guaraní (), specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guarani ( "the people's language"), is a South American language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani family of the Tupian languages. It is one of the official languages of ...
and culture of Paraguay.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Tropidurus guarani'', p. 110).]
Geographic range
''T. guarani'' is found in
Paraguay
Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...
[ and ]Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.[
]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat
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of ''T. guarani'' is rocky outcrops in dry forest
A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...
.
Reproduction
''T. guarani'' is oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), a ...
.[
]
References
Further reading
* Álvarez BB, Cei JM, Scolaro JA (1994). "A new subspecies of ''Tropidurus spinulosus'' (Cope
The cope (known in Latin as ''pluviale'' 'rain coat' or ''cappa'' 'cape') is a liturgical vestment, more precisely a long mantle or cloak, open in front and fastened at the breast with a band or clasp. It may be of any liturgical colours, litu ...
1862) from the subtropical wet mesic Paraguayan region (Reptilia Squamata Tropiduridae)". ''Tropical Zoology'' 7 (1): 161–179. (''Tropidurus spinulosus guarani'', new subspecies).
* Cacciali P, Köhler G (2018). "Diversity of ''Tropidurus'' (Squamata: Tropiduridae) in Paraguay—an integrative taxonomic approach based on morphological and molecular genetic evidence". ''Zootaxa'' 4375 (4): 511–536.
* Harvey MB, Gutberlet RL (1998). "Lizards of the Genus ''Tropidurus'' (Iguania: Tropiduridae) from the Serranía de Huanchaca, Bolivia: New Species, Natural History, and a Key to the Genus". ''Herpetologica'' 54 (4): 493–520. (''Tropidurus spinulosus'', new taxonomic status).
Tropidurus
Reptiles described in 1994
Reptiles of Paraguay
Lizards of Brazil
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