Oreosaurus mcdiarmidi

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: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea

Oreosaurus mcdiarmidi (Kok & Rivas, 2011)

Holotype: IRSNB 2677 (field number PK 3578), adult ♀, collected by Philippe J.R. Kok on 6 May 2011.
Type locality: “Summit of Abakapá-tepui, Bolívar State, Venezuela, 05°11'09" N 062°17'36" W, 2201 m.”

Anadia mcdiarmidi Kok & Rivas, 2011: 3 [original combination]
Oreosaurus mcdiarmidi — Sánchez-Pacheco et al., 2018: 290 [subsequent combination]

Anadia breweri Gorzula, 1992: 276 [nomen nudum fide Gorzula & Señaris (1999: 114)]

Gorzula, S. 1992. La herpetofauna del macizo del Chimantá. pp. 267–280 in Huber, O. (ed.). El Macizo del Chimantá. Oscar Todtmann Editores: Caracas.
Gorzula, S. & Señaris, J.C. [1998] 1999. Contribution to the herpetofauna of the Venezuelan Guayana: I. A data base. Scientia Guaianae 8: 1–269.
Kok, P.J.R. & Rivas, G.A. 2011. A new species of Anadia (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Venezuelan “Lost World”, northern South America. European Journal of Taxonomy 3: 1–18. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2011.3 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. & Schargel, W. 2022. IUCN: Oreosaurus mcdiarmidi (Least Concern) (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T44578204A217804129. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T44578204A217804129.en. Accessed on 14 December 2025.