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Last update: 20 May, 2004

Endemic genus created for a species previously belonging to Gymnophthalmus.

Vanzosaura Rodrigues, 1991
(Type = Gymnophthalmus rubricaudus Boulenger, 1902)
Vanzosaura rubricauda (Boulenger, 1902)
Gymnophthalmus multiscutatus Amaral, 1933
Gymnophthalmus rubricaudus Boulenger, 1902
Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.
Literature
Aguirre, R.H. & J.A. Cespedez. 2001. Geographic Distribution. Vanzosaura rubricauda. Herpetol. Rev., 32(2): 121.
Avila, L.J. 1998. Geographic Distribution. Vanzosaura rubricauda. Herpetol. Rev., 29(1): 52.
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.
Boulenger, G.A. 1902. List of the Fishes, Batrachians, and Reptiles collected by the late Mr. P.O. Simons in the Provinces of Mendoza and Cordova, Argentina. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7)9(53): 336-339.
Gallego, F. 1999. Geographic Distribution. Vanzosaura rubricauda. Herpetol. Rev., 30(4): 234-235.
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
Rodrigues, M.T. 1991. Herpetofauna das dunas interiores do Rio São Francisco: Bahia: Brasil. III. Procellosaurinus: um novo gênero de microteiideo sem pálpebra, com a redefinicão do gênero Gymnophthalmus (Sauria, Teiidae). Pap. Avuls. Zool., 37: 329-342.
Vitt, L.J. 1982. Sexual Dimorphism and Reproduction in the Microteiid Lizard, Gymnophthalmus multiscutatus. J. Herpetol., 16(3): 325-329.
Vitt, L.J. 1983. Tail Loss in Lizards: the Significance of Foraging and Predator Escape Modes. Herpetologica, 39(2): 151-162.