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Last update: 25 August, 2004

A genus of tropidurid lizards untill recently considered part of Tropidurus.

Eurolophosaurus Frost, Rodrigues, Grant & Titus, 2001
(Type = Tropidurus nanuzae Rodrigues, 1981)
Eurolophosaurus amathites (Rodrigues, 1984)
Tropidurus amathites Rodrigues, 1984
Distribution: Brazil.
Eurolophosaurus divaricatus (Rodrigues, 1986)
Tropidurus divaricatus Rodrigues, 1986
Distribution: Brazil.
Eurolophosaurus nanuzae (Rodrigues, 1981)
Tropidurus nanuzae Rodrigues, 1981
Distribution: Brazil.
Literature
Fontes, A.F., J.J. Vicente, M.C. Kiefer & M. Van Sluys. 2003. Parasitism by Helminths in Eurolophosaurus nanuzae (Lacertilia: Tropiduridae) in an Area of Rocky Outcrops in Minas Gerais State, Southeastern Brazil. J. Herpetol., 37(4): 736-741.
Frost, D.R. 1992. Phylogenetic Analysis and Taxonomy of the Tropidurus Group of Lizards (Iguania: Tropiduridae). Amer. Mus. Novit., 3033: 1-68.
Frost, D.R. & R. Etheridge. 1989. A phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of iguanian lizards (Reptilia: Squamata). Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Misc. Publ., 81: 1-65.
Frost, D.R., M.T. Rodrigues, T. Grant & T.A. Titus. 2001. Phylogenetics of the Lizard Genus Tropidurus (Squamata: Tropiduridae: Tropidurinae): Direct Optimization, Descriptive Efficiency, and Sensitivity Analysis of Congruence Between Molecular Data and Morphology. Mol. Phyl. Evol., 21(3): 352-371.
Galdino, C.A.B., V.B. Assis, M.C. Kiefer & M. Van Sluys. 2003. Reproduction and Fat Body Cycle of Eurolophosaurus nanuzae (Sauria; Troipduridae) from a Seasonal Montane Habitat of Southeastern Brazil. J. Herpetol., 37(4): 687-694
Galdino, C.A.B. & E.G. Pereira. 2002. Tropidurus nanuzae. Death Feigning. Herpetol. Rev., 33(1): 54. 
Harvey, M.B. & R.L.J. Gutberlet 1998. Lizards of the genus Tropidurus (Iguania: Tropiduridae) from the Serrania de Huanchaca, Bolivia: new species, natural history, and a key to the genus. Herpetologica, 54(4): 493-520.
Martins, J.M. 1995. Allozyme variation and expression in lizards of the Tropidurus nanuzae species group (Iguania: Tropiduridae). Copeia, 1995: 665-675.
Passoni, J.C., M.L. Benozzati & M.T. Rodrigues. 2000. Mitochondrial DNA polymorphism and heteroplasmy in populations of the three species of Tropidurus of the nanuzae group (Squamata, Tropiduridae). Gen. Mol. Biol., 23: 351-356.
Rodrigues, M.T. 1981. Uma nova especie de Tropidurus do Brasil (Sauria, Iguanidae). Pap. Avuls. Zool., 34(13): 145-149.
Rodrigues, M.T. 1984. Uma nova especie brasileira de Tropidurus com crista dorsal (Sauria, Iguanidae). Pap. Avuls. Zool, 35(16): 169-175.
Rodrigues, M.T. 1986. Um novo Tropidurus com crista dorsal do Brasil, com comentarios sobre suas relacoes, distribuicao e origem (Sauria, Iguanidae). Pap. Avuls. Zool., 36(17): 171-179.
Van Sluys, M., A.F. Fontes, M.C. Kiefer, J.J. Vicente & R.M. Pinto. 2000. Tropidurus nanuzae. Endoparasite. Herpetol. Rev., 31(3): 176.
Vanzolini, P.E. 1986. Addenda and Corrigenda to Part II Lizards and Amphisbaenia. In: Peters, J.A., R. Donoso-Barros & B. Orejas-Miranda (eds.). Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata. Smithsonian Herp. Info. Serv., 70: 1-25.