Glaucomastix is a genus of lizards that belongs to the family Teiidae. The genus is endemic to Brazil.
Species
The genus Glaucomastix contains the following five species, listed alphabetically by specific name.[1]
- Glaucomastix abaetensis (Reis Dias, Rocha & Vrcibradic, 2002) – Bahian sand dune lizard
- Glaucomastix cyanura (Arias, Carvalho, Rodrigues & Zaher, 2011)
- Glaucomastix itabaianensis Rosário, Santos, Arias, Rocha, Reis Dias, Carvalho & Rodrigues, 2019
- Glaucomastix littoralis (Rocha, Bamberg Araújo, Vrcibradic & Mamede da Costa, 2000)
- Glaucomastix venetacauda (Arias, Carvalho, Rodrigues & Zaher, 2011)
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Glaucomastix.
References
- ^ Genus Glaucomastix at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org
Further reading
- Goicoechea, N; Frost, DR; De la Riva, I; Pellegrino, KCM; Sites, J Jr; Rodrigues, MT; Padial, JM (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. PMID 34727678. (Glaucomastix, new genus, p. 671).
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