Microlophus (lat.) Is a genus of lizards from the family Tropiduridae .
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Microlophus Duméril & Bibron , 1837 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Representatives of the genus are found exclusively in South America . Seven species (according to other sources nine [1] [2] ) are endemic to the Galapagos Islands [3] [4] . Another 12 inhabit the area of rain shadow in coastal deserts in the west of South America, and their area is a narrow strip with a length of 5000 km [2] .
The scientific name of the genus consists of other Greek. micro- - "small" and lophus - "crest" [5] . In Spanish and English sources, the terms lagartijas de lava and lava lizards are used (translated from Spanish and English - “lava lizards”) [4] [2] [6] . This name is due to the fact that representatives of the genus Microlophus (in particular, belonging to the species common in the Galapagos Islands) can often be seen basking on the surface of a frozen lava [7] .
Classification
As of April 2019, 23 species are included in the genus [8] :
- Microlophus albemarlensis
- Microlophus atacamensis
- Microlophus barringtonensis
- Microlophus bivittatus
- Microlophus delanonis
- Microlophus duncanensis
- Microlophus grayii
- Microlophus habelii
- Microlophus heterolepis
- Microlophus indefatigabilis
- Microlophus jacobii
- Microlophus koepckeorum
- Microlophus occipitalis
- Microlophus pacificus
- Microlophus peruvianus
- Microlophus quadrivittatus
- Microlophus stolzmanni
- Microlophus tarapacensis
- Microlophus theresiae
- Microlophus theresioides
- Microlophus thoracicus
- Microlophus tigris
- Microlophus yanezi
Notes
- ↑ Arguedas R., Steinberg D., Lewbart AG, Deresienski D., Lohmann JK, Muñoz-Pérez JP, Valle CA Haematology and biochemistry of the San Cristóbal Lava Lizard (Microlophus bivittatus) (Eng.) // Conservation Physiology. - 2018 .-- Vol. 6 , no. 1 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Benavides E., Baum R., McClellan D., Sites JW Molecular Phylogenetics of the Lizard Genus Microlophus (Squamata: Tropiduridae): Aligning and Retrieving Indel Signal from Nuclear Introns (Eng.) // Systematic Biology. - 2007. - Vol. 56 , no. 5 . - P. 776-797 .
- ↑ Fitter J., Fitter D., Hosking D. Lava Lizard Microlophus spp. // Wildlife of the Galápagos. - Princeton University Press, 2016 .-- P. 92.
- ↑ 1 2 Constant P. The Galapagos Islands . - Odyssey Publications, 2000 .-- P. 75.
- ↑ Arteaga A., Aguiar G., Guayasamin JM Microlophus bivittatus (English) . Tropical Herping (2019). Circulation date May 3, 2019.
- ↑ 5 and 287. Various information about the Galapagos lava lizards // Biology: Review journal VINITI . - 1971. - Vol. 5 . - S. 33 .
- ↑ Lava lizard . Galapagos Conservation Trust . galapagosconservation.org.uk. Circulation date May 8, 2019.
- ↑ Microlophus . The Reptile Database . Circulation date May 3, 2019.