Plica plica
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Iguania |
Family: | Tropiduridae |
Genus: | Plica |
Species: | P. plica
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Binomial name | |
Plica plica | |
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Plica plica is a species of lizard in the family Tropiduridae, the Neotropical ground lizards. Its common names include collared tree lizard,[3] collared tree runner,[4]tree runner, and harlequin racerunner.[5] In Guyana it is known as wakanama.[5]
Geographic range
Plica plica is native to South America, including Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Bolivia,[6] Peru, and Ecuador. It can also be found in the Caribbean, on Trinidad.[2] It was long ago collected in Grenada, but these specimens were likely waifs.[3]
Biology
Plica plica is
Description
The male of Plica plica can exceed 17 cm (6.7 in) snout-vent length (SVL), the female 15 cm (5.9 in).[3] The body is flattened in shape, likely an adaptation to sticking to vertical tree trunks.[7] It has bunches of spines on its neck. It is mostly olive green or greenish in color with dark brown mottling or banding. The chin is whitish, the throat is black, and there is a black "collar" around its neck.[10] It is "mint-chocolate-chip-colored,"[11] a color tone that helps it blend into mossy tree bark.[5]
Habitat
The habitat of Plica plica is mainly
Parasites
Plica plica harbors
In tribal mythology
One tribe in the
References
- ^ Avila-Pires, T.C.S.; Aparicio, J.; Hoogmoed, M.S.; Moravec, J.; Perez, P. (2020). "Plica plica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T44579844A44579853. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ a b Plica plica. The Reptile Database.
- ^ a b c d e Henderson RW, Murphy JC (2012). "The Collared Tree Lizard, Plica plica (Tropiduridae), on Grenada". IRCF Reptiles and Amphibians 19 (3): 215–216.
- ^ Projects Information for Conservation in Peru: Recorded Wildlife at Taricaya. Projects Abroad.
- ^ a b c Reptiles of the Konashen COCA, Guyana. Conservation International. 2013.
- ^ Kirigin-Aguilar AJ. (2012). "Primer registro de Plica plica (Linnaeus, 1758) para el departamento de La Paz, Bolivia. Comentarios sobre la extensión de la distribución geográfica para Plica umbra (Linnaeus 1758), (Squamata: Tropiduridae) ". Cuad. Herpetol. 26 (1): 61-62. (in Spanish).
- ^ a b c Vitt LJ (1991). "Ecology and life history of the scansorial arboreal lizard Plica plica (Iguanidae) in Amazonian Brazil". Canadian Journal of Zoology 69 (2): 504-11.
- ^ Doody JS (2011). "Environmentally cued hatching in reptiles". Integr. Comp. Biol. 51 (1): 49-61.
- ^ a b Goldberg SR et al. (2009). "Diet and parasite communities of two lizard species, Plica plica and Plica umbra from Brazil and Ecuador". The Herpetological Journal 19 (1): 49-52.
- ^ Etheridge R (1950). "A review of the South American iguanid lizard genus Plica ". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 19: 237.
- ^ Holloway M (1993). "Sustaining the Amazon". Scientific American July, 1993.
- ^ Ribeiro LB et al. (2008). "Thermoregulatory behavior of the saxicolous lizard, Tropidurus torquatus (Squamata, Tropiduridae), in a rocky outcrop in Minas Gerais, Brazil". Herpetological Conservation and Biology 3 (1): 63-70.
- ^ Telford SR (1979). "Reconsideración taxonómica de algunas especies de Plasmodium de lagartijas iguánidas ". Archived 2016-06-10 at the Wayback Machine Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee 54 (2): 129-144. (in Spanish).
- ^ Böhme W (1983). "The Tucano Indians of Colombia and the iguanid lizard Plica plica: Ethnological, herpetological and ethological implications". Biotropica 15 (2): 148-150.