Cercosaura schreibersii Wiegmann, 1834

Smith, Paul, Maciel, José, Redin Hurtado, Mikel, Galeano, Sergio, Stepan, Nicole, Brouard, Jean-Paul, Ríos, Sergio D., Ferreira Riveros, Marcela, Smith, Rebecca L., Owen, Matthew, Nicolay, Harald, Derna, Roberto, Vera Burró, Alvaro, Lahaye, Tito & Cacciali, Pier, 2024, Twenty-eight new and significant departmental reptile records for Paraguay, Acta Zoológica Lilloana 68 (2), pp. 347-385 : 355

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.30550/j.azl/1954

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15000313

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AA003F-FF96-FFCF-2DED-2FB0FBE96479

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Cercosaura schreibersii Wiegmann, 1834
status

 

Schreiber’s Cercosaur,

Cercosaura schreibersii Wiegmann, 1834

An adult found dead in Barrio San Roque, Caazapá (26°11’35’’S 56°22’12’’W), Caazapá department on 16 January 2023 by JM ( Fig. 4 View Fig ) is the first record of this species for Caazapá department. The   GoogleMaps specimen lacks a tail, but shows a bold white paravertebral line and 22 ventral scale rows ( Cei 1993) and will be deposited in the MNHNP. Cercosaura schreibersii is considered to be of “Least Concern” in Paraguay ( Martínez et al., 2020c).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Gymnophthalmidae

Genus

Cercosaura

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