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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.

Uracentron Kaup, 1826
Uranocentron Gray, 1845
Uracentron azureus (Linnaeus, 1758)

  • azureus (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Hoplurus azurea (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Lacerta azurea Linnaeus, 1758
    Stellio azurea (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Stellio brevicaudatus Latreille, 1802
    Uracentron azureum (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Uracentron brevicaudatum (Latreille, 1802)
    Uracentron caerulea (Merrem, 1820)
    Urocentron azureum (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Uromastyx azurea (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Uromastyx caeruleus Merrem, 1820
  • guentheri (Boulenger, 1894)
    Uracentron guentheri (Boulenger, 1894[1895])
    Urocentrum guentheri Boulenger, 1894(1895)
  • werneri Mertens, 1925
    Tropidurus azureus werneri (Mertens, 1925)
    Uracentron werneri Mertens, 1925
    • Distribution: Brazil (guentheri), Colombia (werneri), French Guiana (azureus), Guyana (azureus), Peru (guentheri), Surinam (azureus) and Venezuela (werneri).
    Uracentron flaviceps (Guichenot, 1855)
    Doryphorus castor Cope, 1870
    Doryphorus flaviceps Guichenot, 1855
    Tropidurus flaviceps (Guichenot, 1855)
    Uracentron castor (Cope, 1870)
    Uranoscodon flaviceps (Guichenot, 1855)
    Distribution: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
    Literature
    Boulenger, G.A. 1894(1895). Second Report on Additions to the Lizard Collection in the Natural-History Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1894(4): 722-736. 
    Cope, E.D. 1871. Eighth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., 11: 553-559.
    Ellinger, N., G. Schlatte, N. Jerome & W. Hödl. 2001. Habitat Use and Activity Patterns of the Neotropical Arboreal Lizard Tropidurus (= Uracentron) azureus werneri (Tropiduridae). J. Herpetol., 35(3): 395-402.
    Etheridge, R. 1968. A review of the iguanid lizard genera Uracentron and Strobilurus. Bull. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Zool., 17(2): 47-64.
    Etheridge, R. 1970. Uracentron. In. Peters, J.A. & R. Donoso-Barros (eds.). Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata. Part II. Lizards and Amphisbenians. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 297: 1-293
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    Rand, A.S. 1982. Clutch and Egg Size in Brazilian Iguanid Lizards. Herpetologica, 38(1): 171-178.
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    Vitt, L.J. & P.A. Zani. 1996. Ecology of the elusive tropical lizard Tropidurus [=Uracentron] flaviceps (Tropiduridae) in lowland rain forest of Ecuador. Herpetologica, 52(1): 121-132.
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