Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Gymnophthalmidae > Gymnophthalmus > Gymnophthalmus speciosusGymnophthalmus speciosus (Golden Spectacled Tegu)Synonyms: Blepharictisis speciosa; Epaphelus sumichrasti; Gymnophthalmus birdi; Gymnophthalmus speciosus birdi (heterotypic); Gymnophthalmus speciosus sumichrasti (heterotypic) The golden spectacled tegu (Gymnophthalmus speciosus) is a microteiid lizard found in Mexico, Central America and Colombia. It is a small, cylindrical lizard with a long tail and a tendency to reduced extremeties. |
| Adult Weight [1] | 1 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 1 grams |  | | Habitat Substrate [2] | Fossorial, Terrestrial | | | Litter Size [1] | 2 | | Litters / Year [1] | 3 | | Reproductive Mode [2] | Oviparous | | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 1.575 inches (4 cm) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Apure-Villavicencio dry forests |
Colombia, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Central American Atlantic moist forests |
Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Central American dry forests |
Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Central American montane forests |
Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Central American pine-oak forests |
Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Chiapas Depression dry forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Chocó-Darién moist forests |
Colombia, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Costa Rican seasonal moist forests |
Costa Rica |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Guianan moist forests |
Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests |
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Isthmian-Pacific moist forests |
Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Llanos |
Colombia, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Magdalena Valley dry forests |
Colombia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Magdalena-Urabá moist forests |
Colombia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Mesoamerican Gulf-Caribbean mangroves |
Bahamas, United Kingdom |
Neotropic |
Mangroves |
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Motagua Valley thornscrub |
Guatemala |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Panamanian dry forests |
Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Petén-Veracruz moist forests |
Mexico, Guatemala, Belize |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forest |
Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sinú Valley dry forests |
Colombia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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South American Pacific mangroves |
Colombia, Panama, Ecuador |
Neotropic |
Mangroves |
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Southern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves |
Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Mangroves |
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Southern Pacific dry forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Talamancan montane forests |
Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Mesoamerica |
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
No |
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Tropical Andes |
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela |
No |
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Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena |
Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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