.::::: Lizards of the World - Iguania - Plica :::::.
Last update: 5 July, 2004

This genus is restricted to tropical South America. The genus contains species thought by some to be included in Tropidurus.

Plica Gray, 1831
Hyperanodon Agassiz, 1847
Hypsilophus Wiegmann, 1835
Hypsibatus Wagler, 1830
Ptychopleura Fitzinger, 1843
Ptychosaurus Fitzinger, 1843
Plica lumaria Donnelly & Myers, 1991
Plica nigra Mägdefrau, 1991
Tropidurus lumarius (Donnelly & Myers, 1991)
Distribution: Venezuela.
Plica plica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Agama plica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ecphymotes plica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hypsibatus agamoides (Gray, 1827)
Hypsibatus plica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hypsibatus punctatus Duméril & Bibron, 1837
Iguana chalcidica Laurenti, 1768
Lacerta plica Linnaeus, 1758
Lophyrus agamoides Gray, 1827
Lophyrus panthera Spix, 1825
Lophyrus plica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ophryessa panthera (Spix, 1825)
Ophryessa plica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Plica punctata (Duméril & Bibron, 1837)
Pneustes plica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ptychosaurus plica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ptychosaurus punctatus (Duméril & Bibron, 1837)
Stellio plica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tropidurus plica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Uranoscodon plica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad and Venezuela.
Plica umbra (Linnaeus, 1758)

  • umbra (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Agama umbra (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Hyperanodon umbra (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Hypsibatus umbra (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Iguana umbra (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Lacerta umbra Linnaeus, 1758
    Lophyrus umbra (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Ophryessa umbra (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Pneustes umbra (Spix, 1825)
    Tropidurus umbra (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Tropidurus unicarinatus Werner, 1899
    Uranoscodon umbra (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • ochrocollaris (Spix, 1825)
    Hyperanodon peltigerus Cope, 1876
    Lophyrus ochrocollaris Spix, 1825
    Ophryessa ochrocollaris (Spix, 1825)
    Plica tuberculatum (Andersson, 1918)
    Tropidurus holotropis Boulenger, 1912
    Uraniscodon tuberculatum Andersson, 1918
    • Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam and Venezuela.
    Literature
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    Baum, T. 2000. Zur Beitrag “ Zur Haltung und Vermehrung des Stelzenläuferleguans, Plica plica” von Frank Schaarschmidt in der elaphe, 4/99. elaphe, 8(1): 59.
    Boulenger, G.A. 1912. Descriptions of new Reptiles from the Andes of South America, preserved in the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8)10(58): 420-424.
    Cope, E.D. 1876. Report on the Reptiles brought by Professor James Orton from the middle and upper Amazon and western Peru. J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia N.S., (2)8: 159-183.
    Donnelly, M.A. & C.W. Myers. 1991. Herpetological Results of the 1990 Venezuelan Expedition to the Summit of Cerro Guaiquinima, with New Tepui Reptiles. Amer. Mus. Novit., 3017: 1-54.
    Etheridge, R. 1970. A review of the South-American iguanid lizard genus Plica. Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Zool., 19(7): 237-256.
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    Schaarschmidt, F. 1999. Zur Haltung und Vermehrung des Stelzenläuferleguans, Plica plica (Linnaeus, 1758). elaphe, 7(4): 17-21.
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