Lacertoidea

Pantanal

Figure 2.Heads of various species of Euspondylus. Holotype of Euspondylus chasqui (CORBIDI 06963, a,b), holotype of Euspondylus oreades (CORBIDI 07219, c,d) and Euspondylus spinalis (CORBIDI 07234, e,f).

Figure 2.Lateral A dorsal B and ventral C views of the head of Potamites montanicola holotype (CORBIDI 08322)

Figure 2.Known localities for Tupinambis quadrilineatus in Brazil. Distrito Federal (DF): Brasília, Gama (1). Goiás (GO): Iaciara (2) Minaçu (3) Mara Rosa (4) Santa Terezinha de Goiás (5) Pirenópolis (6) Aragarças (7) Baliza (8). Maranhão (MA): Balsas (9) São Raimundo das Mangabeiras (10). Mato Grosso (MT): Primavera do Leste (11) Chapada dos Guimarães (12) Rosário Oeste (13) Cáceres (14). Minas Gerais (MG): Chapada Gaúcha (15) João Pinheiro (16). Piauí (PI): Guadalupe (17) Lagoa Alegre (18) Altos (19) Monsenhor Gil (20) Amarante (21), Ribeiro Gonçalves (22) Uruçuí (23). Pará (PA): Santa Maria das Barreiras and Redenção (24). Tocantins (TO): Gurupi (25) Mateiros (26). The localities recorded in the present study are represented by red squares. The type-locality of Tupinambis quadrilineatus is shown as an asterisk, the type-locality of its junior-synonym (Tupinambis cerradensis) is shown as a star and remaining records from the literature are shown as blue circles (Manzani and Abe 1997; Colli et al. 1998; Guimarães et al. 2007; Silva Jr. et al. 2005; Vitt et al. 2005; Mesquita et al. 2006; Recoder and Nogueira 2007; Ferreira et al. 2009; Silveira 2009; Recoder et al. 2011; Dal Vechio et al. 2013). The Cerrado savanna biome is highlighted in gray.

Figure 2.Head of holotype of Alopoglossus viridiceps sp. n. (QCAZ10670) in dorsal (top), lateral (middle) and ventral (bottom) views. Photographs by OTC.

N 44.12774 E 011.04489 Elev 490M asl.

Lanzarote, De Kanariske Øer, Spanien, Spain

Melby Overdrev, Denmark

Italien

Cerbère Pyrénées-Orientales France

Figure 2.Heads of various species of Euspondylus. Holotype of Euspondylus chasqui (CORBIDI 06963, a,b), holotype of Euspondylus oreades (CORBIDI 07219, c,d) and Euspondylus spinalis (CORBIDI 07234, e,f).

Figure 3.Distinguishable characters of Potamites montanicola. Femoral pores and dorsal scutellation in the holotype (CORBIDI 08322) A–B absence of femoral pores and dorsal scutellation in female (CORBIDI 08328) C–D

Figure 3.Adult male Tupinambis quadrilineatus. A specimen collected in the Palmares National Forest, Altos, Piauí (CHNUFPI 0036; Scale 5cm) B specimen collected with pit-fall traps at Guadalupe, Piauí (CHNUFPI 0038) C lateral view of the head and D dorsal view of the anterior region of the body (CHNUFPI 0036).

Figure 3.Species of Alopoglossus from western Ecuador. A, B Alopoglossus viridiceps sp. n., paratype QCAZ11854, juvenile male, SVL = 38.67 mm C, D Alopoglossus viridiceps sp. n., paratype QCAZ10671, juvenile female, SVL = 33.80 mm E, F Alopoglossus viridiceps sp. n., paratype QCAZ11855, juvenile, SVL = 31.59 mm G, H Alopoglossus festae, QCAZ 9161, female, SVL = 46.89 mm.

Lanzarote, De Kanariske Øer, Spanien, Spain

Molslaboratoriet, Denmark

Italien

Cerbère Pyrénées-Orientales France

Figure 3.Euspondylus oreades, new species, from central Peru. Holotype male (CORBIDI 07219, a,b) and female (CORBIDI 07216, c,d).

Figure 4.Potamites species from Peru. Potamites montanicola (CORBIDI, 08324) A Potamites strangulatus strangulatus from Cordillera de Kampankis, Amazonas, northern Peru (not collected individual) B photo by Alessandro Catenazzi; Potamites ecpleopus fromCordillera de Kampankis, Amazonas, northern Peru (CORBIDI 09516) C photo by Alessandro Catenazzi; Potamites strangulatus trachodus from Cordillera Escalera, San Martin, northern Peru (CORBIDI 06368) D photo by Pablo J. Venegas.

Figure 4.Distribution of Alopoglossus viridiceps sp. n. (triangles) and its sister species Alopoglossus festae (circles) in Ecuador. Locality data for Alopoglossus festae was taken both from the literature (blue circles; Almendáriz and Carr 2012; Köhler et al. 2012) and museum specimens (green circles; see Appendix).

Introduced male from reproducing population.

Tenerife, De Kanariske Øer, Spanien