.::::: Lizards of the World - Scincomorpha - Colobosaura :::::.
Last update: 20 May, 2004

A genus of three species of South American lizards.

Colobosaura Boulenger, 1887
Perodactylus Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862
Colobosaura kraepelini (Werner, 1910)
Perodactylus kraepelini Werner, 1910
Distribution: Paraguay.
Colobosaura mentalis Amaral, 1933
Distribution: Brazil.
Colobosaura modesta (Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862)
Colobosaura landii Cunha, 1977
Iphisa modesta (Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862)
Perodactylus modestus Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862
Distribution: Brazil.
Literature
Benozzati, M.L. & M.T. Rodrigues. 2003. Mitochondrial Restriction-Site Characterization of a Brazilian Group of Eyelid-Less Gymnophthalmid Lizards. J. Herpetol., 37(1): 161-168.
Peters, J.A. & R. Donoso-Barros. 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata. Part II. Lizards and Amphisbenians. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 297: 1-293
Peters, W.C.H. 1863. Über Cercosaura und die mit dieser Gattung verwandten Eidechsen aus Südamerica. Abh. Phys. Klasse Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1862(4): 165-225.
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.