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Related: About this forumHello, Beautiful - Two New Brilliantly Colored Woodlizard Species Discovered In Peruvian Amazon
Scientists have discovered two new species of woodlizards from the Peruvian Amazon. Woodlizards, in the genus Enyalioides, are little-known reptiles with only 10 described species found in South and Central America. Described in a new paper in ZooKeys, both new woodlizards were found in Cordillera Azul National Park, the nations third-largest.
"These species were discovered in recent expeditions to poorly explored areas on both sides of the Andes in Ecuador and Peru, suggesting that more species might be awaiting discovery in other unexplored areas close to the Andes," the researchers write.
Scientists named one of the new species Enyalioides azulae, or the blue woodlizard, after the Cordillera Azul (Blue Mountains). The other was named Enyalioides binzayedi, or Bin Zayed's woodlizard after Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan who helped fund the expedition through his Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (MBZSCF).
Although there are only ten known woodlizards worldwide, an astonishing nine of them can be found in Peru. "Thanks to these discoveries, Peru becomes the country holding the greatest diversity of woodlizards. Cordillera Azul National Park is a genuine treasure for Peru and it must be treated as a precious future source of biodiversity exploration and preservation!" said lead author Pablo Venegas from the Centro de ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI) in Lima, Perú.
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Hello, Beautiful - Two New Brilliantly Colored Woodlizard Species Discovered In Peruvian Amazon (Original Post)
hatrack
Mar 2013
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Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)1. DU Rec
narnian60
(3,510 posts)2. This article warmed the cockles of my heart.
life long demo
(1,113 posts)3. He is striking
The pictured one is the Enyalioides binzayedi according to the article on mongabay.com. And as usual, the male is much more colorful than the female. Thanks for posting and informing us.
hatrack
(59,584 posts)4. So much out there that we still don't even KNOW about . . . .
I guess that makes throwing it all away that much easier, in the end.