Lizards of Ecuador: Checklist, distribution and systematic references

Abstract:

Several publications (Burt and Burt, 1933; Peters, 1967; Peters and Donoso-Barros, 1970; Miyata, 1982; Almendáriz, 1992; Torres-Carvajal, 2000a; Uetz, 2001) provide lists of Ecuadorian lizards. Of these, the most complete source of information is the checklist by Peters (1967) because it provides both type specimen numbers (not found in other lists) and bibliographic references. In addition, Peters (1967) and Peters and Donoso-Barros (1970) are the only works that include taxonomic keys. On the other hand, Almendáriz (1992) and Torres-Carvajal (2000a) provided data on the general distribution of each species within Ecuador; nevertheless, name of the species, author, and distribution is all the information mentioned. None of these lists is a complete source of bibliographic, taxonomic, and basic geographic information and most are now out of date.

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2001

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