mongabay.com, May 23, 2014
Researchers have
discovered a colorful lizard species in the cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador
The species,
dubbed Alopoglossus viridiceps, is a type of shade lizard. It is described in a
recent issue of the journal ZooKeys.
Like other shade
lizards, Alopoglossus viridiceps lives in the leaf litter of high elevation
could forests, which in Ecuador
Alopoglossus
viridiceps was discovered after field and lab work Omar Torres-Carvajal and
Simón Lobos of the Museo de Zoología QCAZ at the Pontificia Universidad
Católica del Ecuador. There are now seven known Alopoglossus species, six of
which are found in Ecuador
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