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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update:
January 1st, 2025.
Alopoglossidae
 
Fold-tongued Spectacled Tejus
Faltenzungen-Brillentejus oder -Zwergtejus
Foldtungede Brilletejuer
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1 genus which is not endemic | 0%  100%
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32 species of which 18 (56.3%) are endemic | 0%  100%
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Remarks:
Previously included in the family
Teiidae (e.g., Peters & Donoso-Barros 1970; Goin, Goin & Zug 1978) or,
more recently, in
Gymnophthalmidae
(e.g., Pellegrino, Rodrigues, Yonenaga-Yassuda & Sites 2001), formerly a subfamily of the family
Teiidae, but separated from this family by Presch (1983).
Subsequently, Goicoechea, Frost, Riva, Pellegrino, Sites, Rodrigues & Padial (2016) raised the subfamily Alopoglossinae to family status, Alopoglossidae,
incl. the genera Alopoglossus and Ptychoglossus (now considered a synonym of Alopoglossus).
Distribution:
As for the single genus of the family, Alopoglossus.
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