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Taxonomy of the genus Uracentron Biodiversity of the family Tropiduridae

Bibliography of the genus
Uracentron (South American Spiny-tailed Iguanas)

(Reptilia: Sauria: Tropiduridae)

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.


Uracentron in general

Etheridge, R.E. 1968. A review of the iguanid genera Uracentron and Strobilurus. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 17: 45-64.

Frost, D.R. 1992. Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of the Tropidurus group of lizards (Iguania: Tropiduridae). American Museum Novitates 3033: 1-68.

Frost, D.R.; Rodrigues, M.T.; Grant, T.; Titus, T.A. 2001. Phylogenetics of the lizard genus Tropidurus (Squamata: Tropiduridae: Tropidurinae): Direct optimization, descriptive efficiency, and sensitivity analysis of congruence between molecular data and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 21(3): 352-371.

Fugler, C.M.; Schwaner, T.D. 1968. Sexual dichromatism in the genus Uracentron Kaup in eastern Ecuador. Herpetologica 24: 253-255.

Greene, H.W. 1977. Lizards of the genus Uracentron (Iguanidae) in East-Central Colombia. Herpetologica 33(2): 256-260.

Harvey, M.B.; Gutberlet, R.L. 2000. A phylogenetic analysis of the tropidurine lizards (Squamata: Tropiduridae), including new characters of squamation and epidermal microstructure. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 128(2): 189-233.

Köhler, G. 1995. Das Leguanportrait. Dornschwanzleguane der Gattung Uracentron, Kaup 1826. Iguana Rundschreiben 8(1)(14): 14-17.

Uracentron azureum

Ellinger, N.; Schlatte, G.; Jerome, N. 2001. Notes on color patterns, morphometric traits and taxonomic status of the neotropical arboreal lizard Tropidurus (= Uracentron) azureum werneri (Iguania: Tropdiduridae). pp. 75-77. In: Valakos, E.; Lymberakis, P.; Pafilis, P. & Mylonas, M. (eds.). Herpetologia candiana. Natural History Museum of Crete, Irakleio. 151 pp.

Molina, C.; Rivero, R. 2003. Geographic distribution: Uracentron azureum werneri (NCN). Herpetological Review 34(4): 386.

Uracentron flaviceps

Freitas, M.A. de; França, D.P.F. de; Veríssimo, D. 2011. Distribution extension of Uracentron flaviceps (Guichenot, 1855) (Reptilia: Squamata): second record for the state of Acre, Brazil. Check List 7(6): 823-824.

Moravec, J.; Aparicio, J. 2005. Notes on the herpetofauna of Bioceanica and Bolpebra (Provincia Nicolas Suarez, Departamento Pando, Bolivia). Casopis Narodniho Muzea Rada Prirodovedna 174(1-4): 95-113.

Moravec, J.; Aparicio, J. 2005. Notes on the herpetofauna of Bioceanica and Bolpebra (Provincia Nicolas Suaréz, Departamento Pando, Bolivia). Casopis Narodniho Muzea Rada Prirodovedna 174(1-4): 95-113.

Vitt, L.J.; Zani, P.A. 1996. Ecology of the elusive tropical lizard Tropidurus (=Uracentron) flaviceps (Tropiduridae) in lowland rain forest of Ecuador. Herpetologica 52(1): 121-132.