Yanomamia hoogmoedi is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae.[2] The species is endemic to Guyana.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gymnophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Yanomamia |
| Species: | Y. hoogmoedi
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| Binomial name | |
| Yanomamia hoogmoedi (Kok, 2008)
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Etymology
editThe specific name, hoogmoedi, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Marinus Steven Hoogmoed.[3]
Habitat
editThe preferred natural habitat of Y. hoogmoedi is forest, at altitudes around 2,100 m (6,900 ft).[1]
Reproduction
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Hoogmoed M, Ouboter P (2016). "Arthrosaura hoogmoedi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T44578302A44578304. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T44578302A44578304.en. Downloaded on 08 August 2019.
- ^ a b c Yanomamia hoogmoedi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 6 August 2019.
- ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Arthrosaura hoogmoedi, p. 125).
Further reading
edit- Goicoechea N, Frost DR, De la Riva I, Pellegrino KCM, Sites J Jr, Rodrigues MT, Padial JM (2016). "Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment". Cladistics 32 (6): 624–671. (Loxopholis hoogmoedi, new combination).
- Kok PJR (2008). "A new highland species of Arthrosaura Boulenger, 1885 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Maringma tepui on the border of Guyana and Brazil". Zootaxa 1909: 1–15. (Arthrosaura hoogmoedi, new species).
- Pellegrino KCM, Brunes TO, Souza SM, Laguna MM, Avila-Pires TCS, Hoogmoed MS, Rodrigues MT (2018). "On the distinctivness of Amapasaurus, its relationship with Loxopholis Cope 1869, and description of a new genus for L. guianensis and L. hoogmoedi (Gymnophthalmoidea/Ecpleopodini: Squamata)". Zootaxa 4441 (2): 332–346. (Yanomamia hoogmoedi, new combination).
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