Check List 21(2): 467-474, doi: 10.15560/21.2.467

First records of Tropidurus madeiramamore Carvalho, Paredero, Villalobos-Chaves, Ferreira, Rodrigues & Curcio, 2024 (Squamata, Tropiduridae) from Bolivia

Robert P. Langstroth^‡, Mauricio Herrera^§, Gabriel Callapa^|, Luis R. Rivas^¶, Lucindo Gonzales^§, Lesly López^#, Anthony R. DiMeglio^¤, Gregory Schneider^¤, Robert B. Wallace^«

‡ Unaffiliated, South Riding, United States of America§ Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz de Sierra, Bolivia| Bolivian Amphibian Initiative, Cochabamba, Bolivia¶ Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Trinidad, Bolivia# Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia¤ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States of America« Wildlife Conservation Society, La Paz, Bolivia

Corresponding author: Robert P. Langstroth ( pampa_isla@yahoo.de )

Academic editor: Rafael de Fraga

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Citation: Langstroth RP, Herrera M, Callapa G, Rivas LR, Gonzales L, López L, DiMeglio AR, Schneider G, Wallace RB (2025) First records of Tropidurus madeiramamore Carvalho, Paredero, Villalobos-Chaves, Ferreira, Rodrigues & Curcio, 2024 (Squamata, Tropiduridae) from Bolivia. Check List 21(2): 467-474. https://doi.org/10.15560/21.2.467

Abstract

This note reports the first country records of Tropidurus madeiramamore Carvalho, Paredero, Villalobos-Chaves, Ferreira, Rodrigues & Curcio, 2024 for Bolivia, all northern Beni Department, extending the range by some 300 km to the west of earlier records, clarifying the status of specimens previously reported in the literature as Tropidurus oreadicus Rodrigues, 1987, and providing comments on the biogeographic and conservation values of the Amazonian savannas of the Beni.

Keywords

Amazonia, Beni, biogeography, Cerrado, lizards, savannas