Riama

Riama striata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lacertoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: 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 Subordo: Lacertilia Superfamilia: Lacertoidea

Familia: Gymnophthalmidae
Subfamilia: Cercosaurinae
Tribus: Cercosaurini
Genus: Riama
Species (15): R. anatoloros – R. antioquensis – R. balneator – R. cashcaensis – R. colomaromani – R. columbiana – R. labionis – R. meleagris – R. orcesi – R. raneyi – R. simotera – R. stigmatoral – R. striata – R. unicolor – R. yumborum

Name

Riama Gray, 1858: 445

• Type species: Riama unicolor , 1858, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Emphrassotis O’Shaughnessy, 1879: 295 [synonymized with Proctoporus by Boulenger (1885: 412); with Riama by Doan & Castoe (2005) by implication]
  • Type species: Emphrassotis simoterus O’Shaughnessy, 1879, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1858. Description of Riama, a new genus of lizards, forming a distinct family. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1858: 444–446. BHL
• O’Shaughnessy, A.W.E. 1879. Description of new species of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 5, 4(22): 295–303. DOI: 10.1080/00222937908679832 BHL Reference page. 
• Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume 2. Iguanidae, Xenosauridae, Zonuridae, Anguidae, Aniellidae, Helodermatidae, Varanidae, Xantusiidae, Teiidae, Amphisbaenidae. Second edition. Trustees of the British Museum: London. xiii + 497 pp., 24 pls. BHL Reference page. 
• Doan, T.M. & Castoe, T.A. 2005. Phylogenetic taxonomy of the Cercosaurini (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), with new genera for species of Neusticurus and Proctoporus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143(3): 405–416. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00145.x Reference page. 

Additional references

• Aguirre-Peñafiel, V., Torres-Carvajal, O., Nunes, P.M.S., Peck, M.R. & Maddock, S.T. 2014. A new species of Riama Gray, 1858 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the tropical Andes. Zootaxa 3866(2): 246–260. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.2.4 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. 
• Amézquita, A., Daza, J.M., Contreras, L.A.B., Orejuela, C., Barrientos, L.S. & Mazariegos H., L.A. 2022. One more and one less: a new species of large bromelicolous lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Anadia) from the Andean cloud forests of northwestern Colombia and the phylogenetic status of Anadia antioquensis. Zootaxa 5150(2): 217–238. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.2.3 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Riama . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 21 May 2023.

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