Kentropyx
Encyclopedia
Kentropyx is a whiptail lizard genus
which belongs to the family
(Teiidae
). There are nine species in this genus.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
which belongs to the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
(Teiidae
Teiidae
Teiidae is a family of lizards native to the Americas, generally known as whiptails. The group includes the parthenogenic genera Cnemidophorus and Aspidoscelis, and the non-parthenogenic Tupinambis. It has over 230 member species in ten genera...
). There are nine species in this genus.
Selected species
- Kentropyx altamazonica (Cope, 1876)
- Kentropyx borckiana
- Kentropyx calcarata Spix, 1825
- Kentropyx intermedius (Gray, 1831)
- Kentropyx paulensis Boettger, 1893
- Kentropyx pelviceps Cope, 1868
- Kentropyx striata (Daudin, 1802)
- Kentropyx vanzoi Gallagher & Dixon, 1980
- Kentropyx viridistriga Boulenger, 1894