A new Andean lizard of the genus Potamites (Sauria, Gymnophthalmidae) from Manu National Park, southeastern Peru

GERMÁN CHÁVEZ; ALESSANDRO CATENAZZI

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3774.1.3

Issue: Vol. 3774 No. 1: 4 Mar. 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-03-04

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3774.1.3

Page range: 45–56

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**A new Andean lizard of the genus Potamites (Sauria, Gymnophthalmidae) from Manu National Park, southeastern Peru**

GERMÁN CHÁVEZ⁺⁻
ALESSANDRO CATENAZZI⁺⁻

Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Av. Santa Rita 105, Urb. Los Huertos de San Antonio, Surco, Lima 33, Peru

Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA

Squamata Gymnophthalmidae Andes Cusco stream cloud forest taxonomy

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Abstract

We describe a new lizard of the genus Potamites from elevations of 1000–2100 m in the montane forests of the Cordillera de Paucartambo and the upper Kosñipata valley, Region of Cusco, Peru. The new species differs from other species of Potamites by having scattered keeled scales on dorsum, an undivided frontonasal and absence of femoral pores in females.