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REPTILIA: SAURIA: TEIIDAE ^ ^ 'k 'A ECHINOSAURA 



ECHINOSAURA 



I85O Ech inosaura Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, I85O: 82. Type-species: Ech inosaura horr ida 

 Boulenger. 



Distribution: As for only known species. 



Content: One species, according to most recent review by Uzzell, Copeia, 1965' 



ECHINOSAURA HÓRRIDA Boulenger 



I85O Echinosaura hórrida Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, I85O: 83, pi. 10, fig. 1-lc. Type- 

 locality: Ecuador. 



Distribution: Pacific Ecuador to Panama. 

 Content: Three subspecies, according to Uzzell, 1565- 

 Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Frontonasal single; frontal undivided, 1. Frontonasal ijn ico; frontal no dividido, 



short, scarcely longer than wide; dorsum corto, ligeramente más largo que ancho; 



with two juxtaposed longitudinal rows of dorso con dos hileras longitudinales de 



tubercles horr ida tubérculos yuxtapuestos horr i da 



Frontonasal divided; frontal undivided and Frontonasal dividido; frontal dividido o 



much longer than wide, or transversely no, y mucho más largo que ancho, cuando 



divided, two parts together much longer esta dividido las dos partes juntas son 



than wide; dorsum with longitudinal, más largas que anchas; dorso con hileras 



usually sinuous or angled, occasionally de pequeñas tubérculos separados entre si 



straight, rows of tubercles, these sepai — por cinco a diez escamitas ' 2 



ated by five to ten small scales 2 



2. Frontal transversalmente dividido, la 



2. Frontal transversely divided, length of two longitud de los dos partes mucho mayor que 



parts much greater than greatest width; el ancho más grande; inf ralab iales más de 



infralabials more than 4-5 panamens i s 4-5 panamens i s 



Frontal undivided, long; infralabials fewer Frontal no dividido, largo; inf ralab iales 



than 4-5 palmer i menos de 4-5 palmer i 



Ech inosaura horr ida horr ida Boulenger 



1565 Ech inosaura horr ida hórrida — Uzzell, Copeia, 1565' ^3- 



Distribution: Northwestern lowlands of Ecuador; Gorgona Island, Colombia. 



Ech i nosaura horr i da palmer i Boulenger 



1911 Ech inosaura palmer i Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 8 (7): 23. Type-locality: Noananoa, 



R'o San Juan, Chocó, Colombia. 

 19"" Echinosaura centralis Dunn, Caldasia, 2: 397. Type-locality: Muzo (Humbo), Colombia. 

 1965 Ech inosaura hórrida palmer i — Uzzell, Copeia, 1965= ^5- 



Distribution: Darien, Panama, to Colombia. 



Ech inosaura horr i da panamens i s Barbour 



1924 Ech inosaura panamens is Barbour, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 9= 8. Type-locality: La 



Loma, Bocas del Toro Province, Panama. 

 1965 Ech Inosaura horr ida panamens i s — Uzzell, Copeia, 1965= 85. 



Distribution: Chiriqui, Bocas del Toro and Code, Panama. 



