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Teiidae  Gray, 1827
Taxonomic Serial No.: 174012

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): Tegus [English]
  
    Ground Lizards [English]
  
    New World Runners [English]
  
    Racerunners [English]
  
    Whiptails [English]
  
    Ameivas [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  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, amphisbènes, lézards, serpents  
                            SuborderAutarchoglossa   
                               FamilyTeiidae Gray, 1827 – Tegus, Ground Lizards, New World Runners, Racerunners, Whiptails, Ameivas  
    Direct Children:  
                                  GenusAmeiva Meyer, 1795 – Ground Lizards, Ameivas 
                                  GenusAmeivula Harvey, Ugueto and Gutberlet Jr., 2012  
                                  GenusAspidoscelis Fitzinger, 1843  
                                  GenusAurivela Harvey, Ugueto and Gutberlet Jr., 2012  
                                  GenusCallopistes Gravenhorst, 1837  
                                  GenusCnemidophorus Wagler, 1830 – Racerunners, Whiptails 
                                  GenusContomastix Harvey, Ugueto and Gutberlet Jr., 2012  
                                  GenusCrocodilurus Spix, 1825  
                                  GenusDicrodon Duméril and Bibron, 1839  
                                  GenusDracaena Daudin, 1801  
                                  GenusGlaucomastix Goicoechea, Frost, De la Riva, Pellegrino, Sites, Rodrigues and Padial, 2016  
                                  GenusHolcosus Cope, 1862  
                                  GenusKentropyx Spix, 1825  
                                  GenusMedopheos Harvey, Ugueto and Gutberlet Jr., 2012  
                                  GenusPholidoscelis Fitzinger, 1843  
                                  GenusSalvator Duméril and Bibron, 1839  
                                  GenusTeius Merrem, 1820  
                                  GenusTupinambis Daudin, 1803  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Peter Uetz   
  Notes: Associate Professor, CSBC   
  Reference for: Teiidae    
       
  Expert: Roy W. McDiarmid   
  Notes: U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center   
  Reference for: Teiidae    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, database (version undefined)  
  Acquired: 2000   
  Notes: CONABIO: (http://www.conabio.gob.mx/)   
  Reference for: Teiidae   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Teiidae   
       
  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: Teiidae   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner   
  Publication Date: 1987   
  Article/Chapter Title: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Resource Publication, no. 166   
  Page(s): 79   
  Publisher: United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service   
  Publication Place: Washington, D.C., USA   
  ISBN/ISSN:    
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Teiidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Flores-Villela, Oscar / McCoy, C. J., ed.   
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title: Herpetofauna Mexicana: Lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de México, cambios taxonómicos recientes, y nuevas especies   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17   
  Page(s): iv + 73   
  Publisher: Carnegie Museum of Natural History   
  Publication Place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-911239-42-1   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Teiidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Goicoechea, Noemí, Darrel R. Frost, Ignacio De la Riva, Katia C. M. Pellegrino, et al.   
  Publication Date: 2016   
  Article/Chapter Title: Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Cladistics, vol. 32, no. 6   
  Page(s): 624-671   
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 0748-3007   
  Notes: doi: 10.1111/cla.12150   
  Reference for: Teiidae   
       

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