Andinosaura afrania

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 Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea

Familia: Gymnophthalmidae
Subfamilia: Cercosaurinae
Tribus: Cercosaurini
Genus: Andinosaura
Species: Andinosaura afrania

Name

Andinosaura afrania (Arredondo & Sánchez-Pacheco, 2010)

• Holotype: MHNCSJ 1048, adult ♂, collected by Marco A. Serna, A. Gómez and M. Pérez on 28 December 1989.
• Type locality: “Valle Real, 13 km northeast on Urrao- Caicedo road (6°22’57” N, 76°4’26” W), Municipio de Urrao, Departamento de Antioquia, Colombia, 2,350 m”.

Combinations

• Riama afrania Arredondo & Sánchez-Pacheco, 2010: 611 [original combination]
• Andinosaura afrania — Sánchez-Pacheco et al., 2018: 290 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Arredondo, J.C. & Sánchez-Pacheco, S.J. 2010. New Endemic Species of Riama (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Northern Colombia. Journal of Herpetology 44(4): 610–617. DOI: 10.1670/09-218.1 Reference page. 
• Sánchez-Pacheco, S.J., Torres-Carvajal, O., Aguirre-Peñafiel, V., Nunes, P.M.S., Verrastro, L., Rivas, G.A., Rodrigues, M.T., Grant, T. & Murphy, R.W. 2018. Phylogeny of Riama (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), impact of phenotypic evidence on molecular datasets, and the origin of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta endemic fauna. Cladistics 34(3): 260–291. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12203 Reference page. 

Links

• Arredondo, J.C., Bolívar, W. & Velasco, J. 2015. IUCN: Riama afrania  (Data Deficient) (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T44578744A115386603. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T44578744A44578747.en. Accessed on 17 December 2025.