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Taxonomy of the family Gymnophthalmidae Biodiversity of the family Gymnophthalmidae

Bibliography of the family
Gymnophthalmidae
(Scaly-tongued Spectacled Tejus)

(Reptilia: Sauria)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Barros, F.C.; Herrel, A.; Kohlsdorf, T. 2011. Head shape evolution in Gymnophthalmidae: does habitat use constrain the evolution of cranial design in fossorial lizards. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24(11): 2423-2433.

Bauer, A.M.; Günther, R. 1994. An annotated type catalogue of the teiid and microteiid lizards in the Zoological Museum, Berlin (Reptilia: Squamata: Teiidae and Gymnophthalmidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 70(2): 267-280.

Benozzati, M.L.; Rodrigues, M.T. 2003. Mitochondrial restriction site characterization of a brazilian group of eyelid-less gymnophthalmid lizards. Journal of Herpetology 37(1): 161-168.

Castoe, T.A.; Doan, T.M.; Parkinson, C.L. 2004. Data partitions and complex models in Bayesian analysis: the phylogeny of Gymnophthalmid lizards. Systematic Biology 53(3): 448-469.

Costa, H.C.; García, P.C.A.; Zaher, H. 2016. The correct authorship and date of lizard names Teiinae, Tupinambinae, and Gymnophthalmidae. Zootaxa 4132(2): 295-300.

Dixo, M.; Metzger, J.P. 2009. Are corridors, fragment size and forest structure important for the conservation of leaf-litter lizards in a fragmented landscape? Oryx 43(3): 435-442.

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.

Frydlova, P.; Frynta, D. 2015. Strong support for Rensch's rule in an American clade of lizards (Teiidae and Gymnophtalmidae) and a paradox of the largest tejus. Science of Nature 102(5-6): 23.

Goicoechea, N.; Frost, D.R.; Riva, I. de la; Pellegrino, K.C.M.; Sites, J.; 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.

Grizante, M.B.; Brandt, R.; Kohlsdorf, T. 2012. Evolution of body elongation in gymnophthalmid lizards: relationships with climate. PLoS ONE 7(11): e49772.

Hoyos, J.M. 1998. A reapraisal [reappraisal] of the phylogeny of lizards of the family Gymnophthalmidae (Sauria, Scincomorpha). Revista Espanola de Herpetologia 12: 27-43.

Kok, P.J.R. 2015. A new species of the Pantepui endemic genus Riolama (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the summit of Murisipan-tepui, with the erection of a new gymnophthalmid subfamily. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174(3): 500-518.

Kok, P.J.R.; MacCulloch, R.D.; Bruce, M.D.; Roelants, K.; Bocxlaer, I. van; Bossuyt, F. 2012. Low genetic diversity in tepui summit vertebrates. Current Biology 22(15): R589-R590.

Lopez, A.M.; Cabrera, M.R. 1995. Osteologia craneal de Pantodactylus schreibersii schreibersii (Wiegmann, 1834) y su contribucion a la discusion de Gymnophthalmidae (Reptilia). Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaiso 23: 53-62.

Mesquita, D.O.; Colli, G.R.; Pantoja, D.L.; Shepard, D.B.; Vieira, G.H.C.; Vitt, L.J. 2015. Juxtaposition and disturbance: disentangling the determinants of lizard community structure. Biotropica 47(5): 595-605.

Moravec, J.; Smíd, J.; Stundl, J.; Lehr, E. 2018. Systematics of neotropical microteiid lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae), with the description of a new genus and species. ZooKeys 774: 105–139.

Olmo, E.; Capriglione, T.; Odierna, G.; Caputo, V.; Canapa, A. 1995. Results and perspectives in the study of scincomorph karyology. pp. 53-67. In: Llorente, G.A.; Montori, A.; Santos, X. & Carretero, M.A. (eds.). Scientia Herpetologica: papers submitted from the 7th Ordinary General Meeting of Societas Europaea Herpetologica, Barcelona, September 15-19, 1993. Asociacion Herpetologica Espanola, Barcelona. 385 pp.

Pellegrino, K.C.M.; Rodrigues, M.T.; Yonenaga-Yassuda, Y.; Sites, J.W. 2001. A molecular perspective on the evolution of microteiid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae), and a new classification for the family. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 74(3): 315-338.

Peters, W.C.H. 1862. Über Cercosaura und die mit dieser Gattung verwandten Eidechsen aus Südamerica. Abhandlungen Phys. Klasse der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1862(4): 165-225.

Presch, W. 1976. Secondary palate formation in microteiid lizards (Teiidae: Lacertilia). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 75(3): 281-283.

Presch, W. 1978. Descriptions of the hemipenial morphology in eight species of microteiid lizards (family Teiidae, subfamily Gymnophthalminae). Herpetologica 34(1): 108-112.

Presch, W. 1980. Evolutionary history of the South American microteiid lizards (Teiidae: Gymnophthalminae). Copeia 1980(1): 36-56.

Presch, W. 1983. The lizard family Teiidae: is it a monophyletic group? Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(2): 189-197.

Ribeiro-Júnior, M.A.; Amaral, S. 2017. Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. IV. Alopoglossidae, Gymnophthalmidae. Zootaxa 4269(2): 151–196.

Roscito, J.G.; Nunes, P.M.S.; Rodrigues, M.T. 2014. Digit evolution in gymnophthalmid lizards. International Journal of Developmental Biology 58(10-12): 895-908.

Roscito, J.G.; Rodrigues, M.T. 2013. A comparative analysis of the post-cranial skeleton of fossorial and non-fossorial gymnophthalmid lizards. Journal of Morphology 274(8): 845-858.

Ruibal, R. 1950. The status of the lizard Pantodactylus nicefori. Copeia 1950(1): 58.

Sánchez-Pacheco, S.J.; Torres-Carvajal, O.; Aguirre-Peñafiel, V.; Sales-Nunes, P.M.; Verrastro, L.; Rivas, G.A.; Rodrigues, M.T.; Grant, T.; Murphy, R.W. 2017. 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. (Printed version first published in 2018).

Smith, P.; Cacciali, P.; Atkinson, K.; Kallberg, A.; Pheasey, H. 2011. [New records of Gymnophthalmidae (Reptilia: Sauria) from the Laguna Blanca Natural Reserve, San Pedro Department, Paraguay, and an identification key for Paraguayan species of the family]. (In Spanish). Notulas Faunisticas 81: 1-6.

Taylor, E.H. 1949. Two new teiid lizards from Costa Rica. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 33(1): 271-278.

Vitt, L.J.; Pianka, E.R. 2004. Historical patterns in lizard ecology: what teiids can tell us about lacertids. pp. 139-157. In: Perez-Mellado, V.; Riera, N.; Perera, A. (eds.). The biology of lacertid lizards: evolutionary and ecological perspectives. [Colleccio Recerca]. Institut Menorqui d'Estudis, Mao, Menorca. 313 pp.