Colobosauroides
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Colobosauroides is a small genus of lizards in the family Gymnophthalmidae.<ref name="DT">"Colobosauroides ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gymnophthalmidae.</ref><ref name="RDB">"Colobosauroides ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org</ref> The genus Colobosauroides is endemic to Brazil.
Geographic range
Species in the genus Colobosauroides are found in northeastern Brazil, in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Ceará.<ref name="RDB"/>
Species
The genus Colobosauroides includes only the following two species:<ref name="RDB"/>
- Colobosauroides carvalhoi M. Soares & Caramaschi, 1998
- Colobosauroides cearensis da Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991
Etymology
The specific name, carvalhoi, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Antenor Leitão de Carvalho.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Colobosauroides carvalhoi, p. 49).</ref>
References
Further reading
- da Cunha OR, Lima-Verde JS, Lima ACM (1991). "Novo genero e espécie de lagarto do Estado do Ceará (Lacertilia: Teiidae)". Boletim Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Nova Série Zoologia 7 (2): 163–176. (Colobosauroides, new genus; C. cearensis, new species). (in Portuguese).
- Soares M, Caramaschi U (1998). "Espécie nova de Colobosauroides Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991 do estado da Bahia, Brasil (Squamata, Sauria, Gymnophthalmidae)". Bol. Mus. Nac. Nov. Sér., Rio de Janeiro 388: 1–8. (Colobosauroides carvalhoi, new species). (in Portuguese).