''Yanomamia hoogmoedi'' is a
species
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of
lizard
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in the
family
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Gymnophthalmidae
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.
The species is
endemic
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to
Guyana
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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 ...
, ''hoogmoedi'', is in honor of Dutch herpetologist
Marinus Steven Hoogmoed
Marinus may refer to:
*Marinus (crater), a crater on the Moon
*Marinus (given name)
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.
[ Beolens B, Watkins M, ]Grayson M
Grayson may refer to:
Places Canada
* Grayson, Saskatchewan
* Rural Municipality of Grayson No. 184, Saskatchewan
United States
* Grayson, California
* Grayson, Georgia
** Grayson High School
* Grayson, Kentucky
* Grayson, Louisiana
* Gray ...
(2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Arthrosaura hoogmoedi'', p. 125).
Habitat
The preferred natural
habitat
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of ''Y. hoogmoedi'' is
forest
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, at altitudes around .
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Reproduction
''Y. hoogmoedi'' is oviparous
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References
Further reading
* Goicoechea N, Frost DR, De la Riva I, Pellegrino KCM, Sites J Jr, Rodrigues MT, Padial JM (2016). "Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment". ''Cladistics'' 32 (6): 624–671. (''Loxopholis hoogmoedi'', new combination).
* Kok PJR (2008). "A new highland species of ''Arthrosaura'' Boulenger, 1885 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Maringma tepui on the border of Guyana and Brazil". ''Zootaxa'' 1909: 1–15. (''Arthrosaura hoogmoedi'', new species).
*Pellegrino KCM, Brunes TO, Souza SM, Laguna MM, Avila-Pires TCS, Hoogmoed MS, Rodrigues MT (2018). "On the distinctivness of ''Amapasaurus'', its relationship with ''Loxopholis'' Cope
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1869, and description of a new genus for ''L. guianensis'' and ''L. hoogmoedi'' (Gymnophthalmoidea/Ecpleopodini: Squamata)". ''Zootaxa'' 4441 (2): 332–346. (''Yanomamia hoogmoedi'', new combination).
Yanomamia
Reptiles of Guyana
Endemic fauna of Guyana
Reptiles described in 2008
Taxa named by Philippe J.R. Kok
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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