Rhachisaurinae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gymnophthalmoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea Superfamilia: Gymnophthalmoidea

Familia: Gymnophthalmidae
Subfamilia: Rhachisaurinae
Genera (1): Rhachisaurus

Name

• Rhachisaurinae Pellegrino, Rodrigues, Yonenaga-Yassuda & Sites Jr, 2001: 330

Type genus: Rhachisaurus Pellegrino, Rodrigues, Yonenaga-Yassuda & Sites Jr., 2001, by monotypy.

Nomenclatural note: proposed by Pellegrino et al. (2001) to include the monotypic genus Rhachisaurus, but was not explicitly diagnosed by a list of characters (Article 13.1.1). Under Article 13.1.2, a diagnosis may consist of "a bibliographic reference to such a published statement." Although Rhachisaurinae was not explicitly diagnosed in words, Pellegrino et al. stated "Content: Rhachisaurus, new genus for Anotosaura brachylepis Dixon, 1974." Article 13.5 allows the combined description of a new family name and new genus name as long as the type species is fixed. Thus, Rhachisaurinae is available, with type genus Rhachisaurus, and type species Anotosaura brachylepis Dixon, 1974, the latter by monotypy (Article 68.3). (Colli et al. 2015)

References

Primary references

• Pellegrino, C.K.M., Rodrigues, M.T., Yonenaga-Yassuda, Y. & Sites, J.W., jr. 2001. A molecular perspective on the evolution of South American microteiid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae), and a new classification for the family. Biological journal of the Linnean Society 74(3): 315–338. DOI: 10.1006/bijl.2001.0580

Additional references

• Colli, G.R., Hoogmoed, M.S., Cannatella, D.C., Cassimiro, J., Gomes, J.O., Ghellere, J.M., Nunes, P.M.S., Pellegrino, K.C.M., Salerno, P.E., Souza, S.M. & Rodrigues, M.T. 2015. Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new genus and two new species of lizards from Brazilian Amazonia, with nomenclatural comments on the taxonomy of Gymnophthalmidae (Reptilia: Squamata). Zootaxa 4000(4): 401–427. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.4.1 Preview (PDF). Reference page. 
• Goicoechea, N., Frost, D.R., De la Riva, I.J., Pellegrino, K.C.M., Sites Jr., J.W., Rodrigues, M.T. & Padial, J.M. 2016. Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment. Cladistics 32(6): 624–671. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12150 Reference page.