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Oreosaurus  Peters, 1862
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1172245

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2022   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassReptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles  
                         OrderSquamata Oppel, 1811 – Amphisbaenians, Lizards, Snakes, amphisbčnes, lézards, serpents  
                            SuborderAutarchoglossa   
                               FamilyGymnophthalmidae Fitzinger, 1826 – Spectacled Lizards  
                                  GenusOreosaurus Peters, 1862  
    Direct Children:  
                                     SpeciesOreosaurus achlyens (Uzzell, 1958)  
                                     SpeciesOreosaurus bisbali Rivas, Nunes, Baran, Jowers, Smith, Hernández-Morales and Schargel, 2021  
                                     SpeciesOreosaurus luctuosus (Peters, 1863) – Lightbulb Lizard 
                                     SpeciesOreosaurus mcdiarmidi (Kok and Rivas, 2011)  
                                     SpeciesOreosaurus rhodogaster (Rivas, Schargel and Meik, 2005)  
                                     SpeciesOreosaurus serranus Sánchez-Pacheco, Nunes, Marques-Souza, Rodrigues and Murphy, 2017  
                                     SpeciesOreosaurus shrevei (Parker, 1935) – Luminous Lizard, Shreve's Lightbulb Lizard 
       

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  Source: Reptile Database (Nov 2021), website (version Nov-2021)  
  Acquired: 2021   
  Notes: Uetz, P., Freed, P, Aguilar, R. & Hosek, J. (eds.) (2021) The Reptile Database, http://www.reptile-database.org, accessed 12 Dec 2021   
  Reference for: Oreosaurus   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Sánchez-Pacheco, Santiago J., Omar Torres-Carvajal, Vanessa Aguirre-Peńafiel, et al.   
  Publication Date: 2018   
  Article/Chapter Title: Phylogeny of Riama (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), impact of phenotypic evidence on molecular datasets, and the origin of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta endemic fauna   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Cladistics, vol. 34, no. 3   
  Page(s): 260-291   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1096-0031   
  Notes: doi: 10.1111/cla.12203   
  Reference for: Oreosaurus   
       

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