Crocodile Tegu
Crocodilurus amazonicus (Spix, 1825)
Also calledCalango-D’água (por) · Crocodilure amazonien (fra) · Crocodilure amazonien (Le) (fra) · Jacarerana (por) · Jacaruxi (por) · Krokodilschwanzechse (deu) · Lézard caïman (fra) · Tégu Crocodile (fra) · krokodilfarkú teju (hun) · teju ještěrkovitý (ces) · teju krokodylogonowy (pol) · Крокодилохвостая ящерица (rus)
First described in: Spix, & Von, J. B. Animalia nova sive species nova lacertarum quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspicius Maximiliani Josephi I Bavariae Regis suscepto collegit et descripsit Dr. J. B. de Spix.
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description
Pertinent taxonomic references. Spix (1825), Boie (1826), Duméril & Bibron (1839), Boulenger (1885), Hoogmoed & Gruber (1983), Ávila-Pires (1995), Massary & Hoogmoed (2001), Evers & Soares (2007), Harvey et al. (2012).
Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. III. Anguidae, Scincidae, Teiidae
distribution
Distribution and habitat. Crocodilurus amazonicus is endemic to Amazonia, distributed along the Amazon River and some of its main tributaries, especially the western ones and the lower part of the northern ones; it reaches the upper Orinoco basin, in Venezuela, and the coastal area in Brazil, and apparently is rare or absent along the Tapajós, Xingu, and Tocantins rivers (Fig. 7). We examined material from Brazil and Venezuela (Fig. 7). Ávila- Pires (1995) also recorded it in French Guiana, Colombia, and Peru. In Brazil it is known from the states of Amapá, Pará, Amazonas, Roraima, and Rondônia. Crocodilurus amazonicus is semiaquatic and diurnal, inhabits margins of rivers and lakes in forests and inundated savannas, where it is found swimming, on sandy open soil and among roots in beaches, on branches overhanging water, and on logs in the water, up to about 1.5 meters high (Cunha 1961; Crump 1971; Hoogmoed & Lescure 1975; Pires & Prance 1985; Ávila-Pires 1995; Mesquita et al. 2006 b; Vitt et al. 2008; Waldez et al. 2013).
Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. III. Anguidae, Scincidae, Teiidae
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2471926.