Ameivula mumbuca

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lacertoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea

Familia: Teiidae
Subfamilia: Teiinae
Genus: Ameivula
Species: Ameivula mumbuca

Name

Ameivula mumbuca (Colli, Caldwell, Costa, Gainsbury, Garda, Mesquita, Monteiro-Filho, Soares, Silva, Valdujo, Vieira, Vitt, Werneck, Wiederhecker & Zatz, 2003)

• Holotype: CHUNB 28466, adult ♀, collected by Santos F. Balbino, Janalee P. Caldwell, Frederico G.R. França, Adrian A. Garda, Daniel O. Mesquita and Laurie J. Vitt on 27 February 2002.
• Type locality: “adjacent to Escola Municipal Dona Isabel Barreira de Oliveira (10°15′46.02″ S, 46°33′55.69″ W), ca. 35 km NW of Mateiros, Município Mateiros, Tocantins state, Brazil, about 428 m”.

Combinations

• Cnemidophorus mumbuca Colli, Caldwell, Costa, Gainsbury, Garda, Mesquita, Monteiro-Filho, Soares, Silva, Valdujo, Vieira, Vitt, Werneck, Wiederhecker & Zatz, 2003: 4 [original combination]
• Ameivula mumbuca — Harvey, Ugueto & Gutberlet, 2012: 93 [subsequent combination, by implication]

References

Primary references

• Colli, G.R., Caldwell, J.P., Costa, G.C., Gainsbury, A.M., Garda, A.A., Mesquita, D.O., Monteiro-Filho, C.M.R., Soares, A.H.B., Silva, V.N., Valdujo, P.H., Vieira, G.H.C., Vitt, L.J., Werneck, F.P., Wiederhecker, H.C. & Zatz, M.G. 2003. A new species of Cnemidophorus (Squamata, Teiidae) from the Cerrado Biome in Central Brazil. Occasional Papers. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 14: 1–14. Reference page. 
• Harvey, M.B., Ugueto, G.N. & Gutberlet, Jr., R.L. 2012. Review of teiid morphology with a revised taxonomy and phylogeny of the Teiidae (Lepidosauria: Squamata). Zootaxa 3459(1): 1–156. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3459.1.1 Reference page. 

Links

• Colli, G.R., Fenker, J., Tedeschi, L., Bataus, Y.S.L., Uhlig, V.M., Lima, A., Nogueira, C. de C., Borges-Nojosa, D.M., Costa, G.C., de Moura, G.J.B., Winck, G., Silva, J.R.S., Viñas, L.V., Ribeiro Júnior, M.A., Hoogmoed, M.S., Tinôco, M.S., Almeida-Santos, P., Valadão, R., de Oliveira, R.B., Avila-Pires, T.C.S., Ferreira, V.L. & de Menezes, V.A. 2019. IUCN: Ameivula mumbuca  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T50010572A135334299. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T50010572A135334299.pt. Accessed on 10 February 2026.