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Gymnophthalmidae  Fitzinger, 1826
Taxonomic Serial No.: 564540

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): Spectacled Lizards [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2022   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassReptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles  
                         OrderSquamata Oppel, 1811 – Amphisbaenians, Lizards, Snakes, amphisbènes, lézards, serpents  
                            SuborderAutarchoglossa   
                               FamilyGymnophthalmidae Fitzinger, 1826 – Spectacled Lizards  
    Direct Children:  
                                  GenusAcratosaura Rodrigues, Pellegrino, Dixo, Verdade, Pavan, Argolo and Sites Jr., 2007  
                                  GenusAdercosaurus Myers and Donnelly, 2001  
                                  GenusAlexandresaurus Rodrigues, Pellegrino, Dixo, Verdade, Pavan, Argolo and Sites, 2007  
                                  GenusAmapasaurus Cunha, 1970  
                                  GenusAnadia Gray, 1845  
                                  GenusAndinosaura Sánchez-Pacheco, Torres-Carvajal, Aguirre-Peñafiel, Nunes, Verrastro, Rivas, Rodrigues et al., 2018  
                                  GenusAnotosaura Amaral, 1933  
                                  GenusArthrosaura Boulenger, 1885  
                                  GenusBachia Gray, 1845  
                                  GenusCalyptommatus Rodrigues, 1991  
                                  GenusCaparaonia Rodrigues, Cassimiro, Pavan, Curcio, Kruth Verdade and Machado Pellegrino, 2009  
                                  GenusCentrosaura Vásquez-Restrepo, Ibáñez, Sánchez-Pacheco and Daza, 2019  
                                  GenusCercosaura Wagler, 1830  
                                  GenusColobodactylus Amaral, 1933  
                                  GenusColobosaura Boulenger, 1887  
                                  GenusColobosauroides Cunha, Lima-Verde and Lima, 1991  
                                  GenusDendrosauridion Lehr, Moravec, Lundberg, Köhler, Catenazzi and Smíd, 2019  
                                  GenusDryadosaura Rodrigues, Xavier Freire, Machado Pellegrino and Sites, 2005  
                                  GenusEchinosaura Boulenger, 1890  
                                  GenusEcpleopus Duméril and Bibron, 1839  
                                  GenusEuspondylus Tschudi, 1845  
                                  GenusGelanesaurus Torres-Carvajal, Lobos, Venegas, Chávez, Aguirre-Peñafiel, Zurita and Echevarría, 2016  
                                  GenusGymnophthalmus Merrem, 1820 – spectacled lizards, lagartijas de anteojos 
                                  GenusHeterodactylus Spix, 1825  
                                  GenusIphisa Gray, 1851  
                                  GenusKaieteurosaurus Kok, 2005  
                                  GenusKataphraktosaurus Rojas-Runjaic, Barrio-Amorós, Señaris, Riva and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2021  
                                  GenusLeposoma Spix, 1825  
                                  GenusLoxopholis Cope, 1869  
                                  GenusMacropholidus Noble, 1921  
                                  GenusMagdalenasaura Fang, Vásquez-Restrepo and Daza, 2020  
                                  GenusMarinussaurus Peloso, Pellegrino, Rodrigues and Ávila-Pires, 2011  
                                  GenusMicrablepharus Boulenger, 1885  
                                  GenusNeusticurus Duméril and Bibron, 1839  
                                  GenusNothobachia Rodrigues, 1984  
                                  GenusOreosaurus Peters, 1862  
                                  GenusPantepuisaurus Kok, 2009  
                                  GenusPetracola Doan and Castoe, 2005  
                                  GenusPholidobolus Peters, 1862  
                                  GenusPlacosoma Tschudi, 1847  
                                  GenusPotamites Doan and Castoe, 2005  
                                  GenusProcellosaurinus Rodrigues, 1991  
                                  GenusProctoporus Tschudi, 1845  
                                  GenusPsilops Rodrigues, Recoder, Teixeira Jr., Roscito, Guerrero, Nunes, Freitas, Fernandes et al., 2017  
                                  GenusRhachisaurus Pellegrino, Rodrigues, Yonenaga-Yasuda and Sites, 2001  
                                  GenusRheosaurus Vásquez-Restrepo, Ibáñez, Sánchez-Pacheco and Daza, 2019  
                                  GenusRiama Gray, 1858  
                                  GenusRiolama Uzzell, 1973  
                                  GenusRondonops Colli, Hoogmoed, Cannatella, Cassimiro, Gomes, Ghellere, Nunes, Pellegrino, Salerno et al., 2015  
                                  GenusScriptosaura Rodrigues and Maranhão Dos Santos, 2008  
                                  GenusSelvasaura Moravec, Smid, Stundl and Lehr, 2018  
                                  GenusStenolepis Boulenger, 1887  
                                  GenusTretioscincus Cope, 1862  
                                  GenusVanzosaura Rodrigues, 1991  
                                  GenusWilsonosaura Lehr, Moravec and von May, 2020  
                                  GenusYanomamia Pellegrino, Brunes, Souza, Laguna, Avila-Pires, Hoogmoed and Rodrigues, 2018  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Peter Uetz   
  Notes: Associate Professor, CSBC   
  Reference for: Gymnophthalmidae    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, database (version undefined)  
  Acquired: 2000   
  Notes: CONABIO: (http://www.conabio.gob.mx/)   
  Reference for: Gymnophthalmidae   
       
  Source: Reptile Database (Nov 2021), website (version Nov-2021)  
  Acquired: 2021   
  Notes: Uetz, P., Freed, P, Aguilar, R. & Hosek, J. (eds.) (2021) The Reptile Database, http://www.reptile-database.org, accessed 12 Dec 2021   
  Reference for: Gymnophthalmidae   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Flores-Villela, Oscar / McCoy, C. J., ed.   
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title: Herpetofauna Mexicana: Lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de México, cambios taxonómicos recientes, y nuevas especies   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17   
  Page(s): iv + 73   
  Publisher: Carnegie Museum of Natural History   
  Publication Place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-911239-42-1   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Gymnophthalmidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Goicoechea, Noemí, Darrel R. Frost, Ignacio De la Riva, Katia C. M. Pellegrino, et al.   
  Publication Date: 2016   
  Article/Chapter Title: Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Cladistics, vol. 32, no. 6   
  Page(s): 624-671   
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 0748-3007   
  Notes: doi: 10.1111/cla.12150   
  Reference for: Gymnophthalmidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Pough, F. H., R. M. Andrews, J. E. Cadle, M. L. Crump, A. H. Savitzky, and K. D. Wells   
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Herpetology   
  Page(s): 577   
  Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-13-850876-3   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Gymnophthalmidae   
       

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