A checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: Additions and nomenclatural revisions
Author
Savage, Jay M.
Author
Bolaños, Federico
text
Zootaxa
2009
2005
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.274674
18fdce33-1292-46c0-bc02-5715b238cd17
1175-5326
274674
SAURIA Macartney, 1802
11F/30 + 3*G (79) (73 +6*)
FAMILY
ANGUIDAE J. E.Gray, 1825
4G (7)
Celestus
J. E.Gray, 1839
(
3
)
Celestus cyanochloris
Cope, 1894
(527)
Celestus hylaius
Savage & Lips, 1993
(529)
Celestus orobius
Savage & Lips, 1993
(529)
Coloptychon
Tihen, 1943
(
1
)
Coloptychon rhombifer
(W. Peters, 1876)
(532)
Diploglossus
Wiegmann, 1834
(
2
)
Diploglossus bilobatus
(O'Shaughnessy, 1874)
(530)
Diploglossus monotropis
(Kuhl, 1820)
(531)
Mesaspis
Cope, 1877
(
1
)
Mesapis monticola
(Cope, “1878”, 1877) (533)
FAMILY
CORYTOPHANIDAE Merrem, 1820
2G (
4
)
Basiliscus
Laurenti, 1768
(
3
)
Basiliscus basiliscus
(Linné, 1758)
(428)
Basiliscus plumifrons
Cope, 1875
(430)
Basiliscus vittatus
Wiegmann, 1828
(431)
Corytophanes
Merrem, 1820
(
1
)
Corytophanes cristatus
(Merrem, “1821”, 1822) (432)
FAMILY
EUBLEPHARIDAE Boulenger, 1883
1G (
1
)
Coleonyx
J. E. Gray, 1845
(
1
)
Coleonyx mitratus
(W. Peters, 1863)
(481)
FAMILY
GEKKONIDAE J. E.Gray, 1845
5 + 2*G
(12) (8 + 4*)
Subfamily
GEKKONINAE J. E. Gray, 1845
2+2*G
(6) (2 + 4*)
*
Hemidactylus
Oken, 1817
(3)
*
Hemidactylus frenatus
Schlegel, 1836
(484)
*
Hemidactylus garnotii
C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836
(785)
*
Hemidactylus mabouia
(Moreau de Jonnès, 1818), (
Abarca 2006
)
*
Lepidodactylus
Fitzinger, 1843
(
1
)
*
Lepidodactylus lugubris
(C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836) (486)
Phyllodactylus
J. E. Gray, 1828
(
1
)
Phyllodactylus tuberculosus
Wiegmann
, “1834”, 1835 (487)
Thecadactylus
Oken, 1817
(
1
)
Thecadactylus rapicauda
(Houttuyn, 1782)
(488) Subfamily SPAHERODACTYLINAE Underwood, 1954 3G
(6)
Gonatodes
Fitzinger, 1843
(
1)
Gonatodes albogularis
(C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836)
(490)
Lepidoblepharis
Peracca, 1897
(
1
)
Lepidoblepharis xanthostigma
(Noble, 1916)
(491)
Sphaerodactylus
Wagler, 1830
(
4
)
Sphaerodactylus graptolaemus
Harris & Kluge, 1984
(494)
Sphaerodactylus homolepis
Cope
, “1885”, 1886 (494)
Sphaerodactylus millepunctatus
Hallowell
, “1860”, 1861 (495)
Sphaerodactylus pacificus
Stejneger, 1903
(496)
FAMILY
GYMNOPHTHALMIDAE MacLean, 1974
6G (
6
)
Anadia
J. E.Gray, 1845
(
1
)
Anadia ocellata
J. E. Gray, 1845
(518)
Bachia
J. E. Gray, 1845
(
1
)
Bachia blairi
(Dunn, 1940)
(520)
Gymnophthalmus
Merrem, 1820
(
1
)
Gymnophthalmus speciosus
(Hallowell, “1860”, 1861) (521)
Leposoma
Spix, 1825
(
1
)
Leposoma southi
Ruthven & Gaige, 1924
(522)
Potamites
Doan and Castoe, 2005
, (
1
)
Doan and Castoe (2005)
recognized
Potamites
as distinct from
Neusticurus
.
The following species was called
Neusticurus apodemus
by
Savage (2002)
:
Potamites apodemus
(Uzzell, 1966)
(523)
Ptychoglossus
Boulenger, 1890
(
1
)
Ptychoglossus plicatus
(Taylor, 1949)
(524)
FAMILY
IGUANIDAE J. E. Gray, 1827
2G (
3
)
Ctenosaura
Wiegmann, 1828
(
2
)
Ctenosaura quinquecarinata
(J. E. Gray, 1842)
(434)
Ctenosaura similis
(J. E. Gray, 1831)
(435)
Iguana
Laurenti, 1768
(
1
)
Iguana iguana
(Linné, 1758)
(437)
FAMILY PHYRNOSOMATIDAE Fitzinger, 1843 1G (
3
)
Sceloporus
Wiegmann, 1828
(
3
)
Sceloporus malachiticus
Cope, 1864
(441)
Sceloporus squamosus
Bocourt, 1874
(442)
Sceloporus variabilis
Wiegmann, 1834
(443)
FAMILY
POLYCHROTIDAE Fitzinger, 1843
3 + 1*G (
32
) (
30 + 2*
) Some authors (e.g.
Jackman
et al
. 1999
;
Poe 2004
) prefer to place all “anole” lizards, including the next three genera below, into a single genus,
Anolis
(
sensu lato
). We prefer to continue recognition of these taxa as phylogenies in the cited papers confirm that each constitutes a well-supported monophyletic group of species.
Ctenonotus
Fitzinger, 1843
(
1
)
*
Ctenonotus cristatellus
(C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837)
(452)
Dactyloa
Wagler, 1830
(
4
)
Dactyloa chocorum
(Williams & Duellman, 1967)
(456)
Dactyloa frenata
(Cope, 1899)
(454)
Dactyloa insignis
(Cope, 1871)
(455)
Dactyloa microtus
(Cope, 1871)
(455)
Norops
Wagler, 1830
(
25 + 1*
)
Norops altae
(Dunn, 1930)
(468)
The following species was recently collected (UCR 20081-20082) in the area near Buenos Aires,
Puntarenas:
Norops auratus
(Daudin, 1802)
,
addition to fauna
Norops aquaticus
(
Taylor, 1956
)
(458)
Norops biporcatus
(Wiegmann, 1834)
(475)
Norops capito
(W. Peters, 1863)
(476)
Norops carpenteri
(A. A. Echelle, A. F. Echelle & Fitch, 1971)
(469)
The following species was originally based on specimens from western
Panama
, but Köhler and
Sunyer (2008)
identified a specimen (UCR 8477) from Cero Nimaso, Limón Province as this species:
Norops cryptolimiforns
(
Köhler & Sunyer, 2008
)
Norops cupreus
(Hallowell, “1860”, 1861) (458)
Norops fungosus
(C. Myers, 1971)
(477)
Norops humilis
(W. Peters, 1863)
(460)
Norops intermedius
(W. Peters, 1863)
(462)
Hulebak and Poe (2006)
synonymized
Norops pandoensis
Savage & Guyer
, “1998”, 1999 recognized
as valid by
Savage (2002)
with the following species:
Norops kemptoni
(Dunn, 1940)
(473)
Norops lemurinus
(Cope, 1861)
(463)
Norops limifrons
(Cope, 1862)
(470)
We recognize as distinct the following species, included in
Norops humilis
by
Savage (2002)
, because
the diagnositic characters provided by
Taylor (1956)
for
Anolis humilis marsupialis
amply distinguish
it as a distinct taxon from
N. humilis
and
N. quaggalus
as recently redescribed by
Köhler
et al.
(2003)
:
Norops marsupialis
(
Taylor, 1956
)
Norops oxylophus
(Cope, 1875)
(472)
Norops pachypus
(Cope, 1875)
(464)
Norops pentaprion
(Cope, 1862)
(477)
Norops polylepis
(W. Peters, “1873”, 1874) (473)
The following species, included in
Norops humilis
by
Savage (2002)
, was removed from synonymy
by
Köhler
et al
. (2003)
:
Norops quaggulus
(W. Peters, 1863)
The following species was recently collected (UCR 20552-20553) in the area near Limón:
*
Norops sagrei
(C. Dumeril and Bibron, 1837),
addition to fauna
Norops sericeus
(Hallowell, 1856)
(465)
Norops townsendi
(Stejneger, 1900)
Norops tropidolepis
(Boulenger, 1885)
(467)
Norops vociferans
(C. Myers, 1971)
(478)
Norops woodi
(Dunn, 1940)
(479)
Polychrus
Cuvier
“1817”, 1816 (
1
)
Polychrus gutturosus
Berthold, 1845
(445)
FAMILY
SCINCIDAE J. E. Gray, 1825
3G (
3)
Mabuya
Fitzinger, 1826
(
1
)
Mabuya unimarginata
Cope, 1862
(503)
Mesoscincus
Griffith, Ngo
, & Murphy, 2000 (
1
)
Griffith, Ngo, and Murphy (2000)
recognized
Mesoscincus
as distinct from
Eumeces
. The following species was called
Eumeces managuae
by
Savage (2002)
:
Mesoscincus managuae
(Dunn, 1933)
(502)
Sphenomorphus
Fitzinger, 1843
(
1
)
Sphenomorphus cherriei
(Cope, 1893)
(504)
FAMILY
TEIIDAE J. E. Gray, 1827
2G (
6
)
Ameiva
Meyer, 1795
(
5
)
Ameiva ameiva
(Linné, 1758)
(508)
Ameiva festiva
(
Lichtenstein
& von Martens, 1856) (510)
Ameiva leptophrys
(Cope, 1893)
(511)
Ameiva quadrilineata
(Hallowell, “1860”, 1861) (512)
Ameiva undulata
(Wiegmann, 1834)
(513)
Aspidoscelis
Fitzinger, 1843
(
1
)
Reeder
et al
. (2002)
recognized
Aspidoscelis
as distinct from
Cnemidophorus
. The following species was called
Cnemidophorus deppii
by
Savage (2002)
:
Aspidoscelis deppii
(Wiegmann, 1834)
(515)
FAMILY
XANTUSIIDAE Baird, 1859
1G (
2
)
Lepidophyma
A. Duméril, 1851
(
2
)
Lepidophyma flavimaculatum
A. Duméril, 1851
(498)
Lepidophyma reticulatum
Taylor, 1955
(500)