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{{Automatic taxobox<br />
| name = ''Proctoporus''<br />
| taxon = Proctoporus<br />
| authority = [[Johann Jakob von Tschudi|Tschudi]], 1845<br />
| synonyms = ''Opipeuter'' {{small|[[species:Thomas Marshall Uzzell, Jr.|Uzzell]], 1969, ''non'' [[Richard Fortey|Fortey]], 1974 (a [[trilobite]])}}<br />
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* ''P. pachyurus'' <small>Tschudi, 1845 ([[Type (biology)|type]])</small><br />
* ''P. bolivianus'' <small>([[Franz Werner|F. Werner]], 1910)</small> [[Synonym (taxonomy)|synonym]] ''P. subsolanus''<br />
* ''P. chasqui'' <small>(Chávez, Siu-Tinf, Dúran & Venegas, 2011)</small> synonym ''Euspondylus chasqui''<br />
* ''P. guentheri'' <small>[[Oskar Boettger|Boettger]], 1891</small> synonyms ''Oreosaurus guentheri'', ''O. ocellifer'', ''O. anomalus''<br />
* ''P. sucullucu'' <small>Doan & Castoe, 2003</small><br />
* ''P. unsaacae'' <small>Doan & Castoe, 2003</small><br />
* ''P. xestus'' <small>(Uzzell, 1969)</small> synonym ''Opipeuter xestus''<ref name='Goicoechea'/> --><br />
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'''''Proctoporus''''' is a [[genus]] of medium-sized [[lizard]]s ([[snout-vent length]] between {{convert|2.7|cm|in|disp=or}} and {{convert|7.8|cm|in|disp=or}}) assigned to the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Gymnophthalmidae]]. [[Species]] in the genus ''Proctoporus'' occur in [[Yungas]] [[forest]]s and wet [[montane]] [[grassland]]s on the upper edge of the [[Amazon rainforest|Amazonian forest]], between {{convert|1000|and|4000|m|ft}} elevation, from Central [[Peru]] in the north to Central [[Bolivia]] in the south.<ref name='Goicoechea'>{{cite journal|vauthors=[[species:Noemí Goicoechea|Goicoechea N]], [[species:José Manuel Padial|Padial JM]], [[species:Juan Carlos Chaparro|Chaparro JC]], [[species:Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher|Castroviejo-Fisher S]], [[species:Ignacio J. De la Riva|De la Riva I]]|year=2012|title=Molecular phylogenetics, species diversity, and biogeography of the Andean lizards of the genus ''Proctoporus'' (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=65|issue=3|pages=953–964|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2012.08.017|pmid=22982151}}</ref><br />
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==Taxonomy==<br />
[[File:Proctoporus cladogram.png|thumb|right|360px|Relationships between the species assigned to ''Proctoporus''. Note several new species that were previously assigned to ''P. bolivianus'', but need to be split off based on genetic analysis]]<br />
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===Species ===<br />
The following 21 species are recognized as being valid.<ref>{{EMBL genus|genus=Proctoporus}}. www.reptile-database.org.</ref><br />
*''[[Proctoporus bolivianus]]'' {{small|[[Franz Werner|F. Werner]], 1910}} – Bolivian lightbulb lizard<br />
*''[[Proctoporus carabaya]]'' {{small|[[species:Noemí Goicoechea|Goicoechea]], [[species:José Manuel Padial|Padial]], [[species:Juan Carlos Chaparro|Chaparro]], [[species:Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher|Castroviejo-Fisher]] & [[species:Ignacio J. De La Riva|De la Riva]], 2013}}<br />
*''[[Proctoporus cephalolineatus]]'' {{small|[[species:Juan Elías García-Pérez|García-Pérz]] & [[species:Enrique Elías Yustiz|Yustiz]], 1995}}<br />
*''[[Proctoporus chasqui]]'' {{small|([[Germán Chávez (herpetologist)|Chávez]], [[species:Karen Siu-Ting|Siu-Ting]], [[species:Vilma Duran|Duran]] & [[species:Pablo Javier Venegas-Ibáñez|Venegas]], 2011)}}<br />
*''[[Proctoporus guentheri]]'' {{small|([[Oskar Boettger|Boettger]], 1891)}} – [[Albert Günther|Günther's]] lightbulb lizard <br />
*''[[Proctoporus iridescens]]'' {{small|Goicoechea, Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher & De la Riva, 2013}}<br />
*''[[Proctoporus katerynae]]'' {{small|[[species:Luis Mamani|Mamani]], [[species:Roy Santa Cruz Farfán|Cruz]], [[species:Sergio Mallqui|Mallqui]] & [[species:Alessandro Catenazzi|Catenazzi]], 2022}}<br />
*''[[Proctoporus kiziriani]]'' {{small|Goicoechea, Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher & De la Riva, 2013}}<br />
*''[[Proctoporus lacertus]]'' {{small|([[Leonhard Stejneger|Stejneger]], 1913)}}<br />
*''[[Proctoporus laudahnae]]'' {{small|([[Gunther Köhler|G. Köhler]] & [[:de:Edgar Lehr|Lehr]], 2004)}}<br />
*''[[Proctoporus machupicchu]]'' {{small|Mamani, Goicoechea & Chaparro, 2015}} – Machu Picchu Andean lizard<br />
*''[[Proctoporus oreades]]'' {{small|Chávez, Siu-Ting, Duran & Venegas, 2011}}<br />
*''[[Proctoporus optimus]]'' {{small|Mamani, Cruz, Mallqui & Catenazzi, 2022}}<br />
*''[[Proctoporus otishi]]'' {{small|Mamani & [[species:Lily O. Rodríguez|Rodríguez]], 2022}}<br />
*''[[Proctoporus pachyurus]]'' {{small|[[Johann Jakob von Tschudi|Tschudi]], 1845}} – Tschudi's lightbulb lizard<br />
*''[[Proctoporus rahmi]]'' {{small|([[species:Pedro De Grijs|De Grijs]], 1936)}} – Rahm's sun tegu<br />
*''[[Proctoporus spinalis]]'' {{small|([[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1911)}} – Boulenger's sun tegu<br />
*''[[Proctoporus sucullucu]]'' {{small|[[species:Tiffany M. Doan|Doan]] & [[species:Todd Adam Castoe|Castoe]], 2003}}<br />
*''[[Proctoporus titans]]'' {{small|Lehr, [[species:Juan Carlos Cusi|Cusi]], [[species:Maura I. Fernandez|Fernandez]], [[species:Ricardo J. Vera|Vera]] & Catenazzi, 2022}}<br />
*''[[Proctoporus unsaacae]]'' {{small|Doan & Castoe, 2003}}<br />
*''[[Proctoporus xestus]]'' {{small|([[species:Thomas Marshall Uzzell, Jr.|Uzzell]], 1969)}} – river teiid<br />
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''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Proctoporus''.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*[[Johann Jakob von Tschudi|Tschudi JJ de]] (1845). "''Reptilium conspectus quae in Republica Peruana reperiuntur et pleraque observata vel collecta sunt in itinere'' ". ''Archiv für Naturgeschichte'' '''11''' (1): 150–170. (''Proctoporus'', new genus, p.&nbsp;161; ''P. pachyurus'', new species, p.&nbsp;161). (in Latin).<br />
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[[Category:Lizard genera]]<br />
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