A New Species of Echinosaura (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Ecuador

Gunther Köhler; Wolfgang Böhme; Andreas Schmitz

doi:10.1670/164-02A

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Gunther Köhler,^1,2,* Wolfgang Böhme,³ Andreas Schmitz^3,2

¹aForschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, D–60325 Frankfurt a. M., Germ
²cMuséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Route de Malagnou, CH-1211 Genève 6, Switzerland
³bZoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germa

^*Corresponding Author

Abstract

Abstract.—A new species of Echinosaura, Echinosaura brachycephala, is described from two localities on the Pacific versant of the Ecuadorian Andes. The new species differs from all other species of the genus by its conspicuously short head with a high domed snout in lateral profile and various scalation characteristics including the number of ventral scales per caudal segment, the arrangement of dorsal body scales, and a reduced or absent postmental scale. A key to the species of Echinosaura and Teuchocercus is provided.

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Gunther Köhler, Wolfgang Böhme, and Andreas Schmitz "A New Species of Echinosaura (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Ecuador," Journal of Herpetology 38(1), 52-60, (1 March 2004). https://doi.org/10.1670/164-02A

Accepted: 1 November 2003; Published: 1 March 2004

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