Oreosaurus

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 Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea

Familia: Gymnophthalmidae
Subfamilia: Cercosaurinae
Tribus: Cercosaurini
Genus: Oreosaurus
Species (9): O. achlyens – O. bisbali – O. cephalolineatus – O. inanis – O. luctuosus – O. mcdiarmidi – O. rhodogaster – O. serranus – O. shrevei

Name

Oreosaurus Peters, 1862: 201

• Type species: Ecpleopus (Oreosaurus) luctuosus Peters 1863, by subsequent designated by Burt & Burt (1931: 365).

References

Primary references

• Peters, W. 1862. Über Cercosaura und die mit dieser Gattung verwandten Eidechsen aus Südamerica. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1862: 165–225. BHL

Additional references

• Sánchez-Pacheco, S.J., Nunes, P.M.S., Marques-Souza, A. Rodrigues, M.T. & Murphy, R.W. 2017. Formal recognition of the species of Oreosaurus (Reptilia, Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. ZooKeys 691: 149–162. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.691.13595 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. 
• Rivas, G.A., Nunes, P.M.S., Baran, A., Jowers, M.J., Smith, E.N., Hernández-Morales, C. & Schargel, W.E. 2021. A new species of Oreosaurus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Turimiquire Massif, northeastern Venezuela. Zootaxa 5023(4): 571–584. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.4.6 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Oreosaurus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 7 February 2025.