Proctoporus Tschudi 1845
Creators: name: Mamani, Luis
name: Goicoechea, Noemí
name: Chaparro, Juan C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gymnophthalmidae
Proctoporus

description: Revised key to the genus Proctoporus
Key to the Species of Proctoporus from Perú, Bolivia, and Argentina (adapted from Goicoechea, Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva 2013)
1a. Presence of prefrontals........................................................................ 2
1b. Absence of prefrontal scales.................................................................... 3
2a. Smooth dorsal scales, single large elongate subocular, presence of large spines at the base of the sulcus spermaticus........................................................................................... P. xestus
2b. Keeled dorsal scales, several small subocular scales.............................................. P. chasqui
3a. Two pair of genial in contact................................................................... 5
3b. Three pair of genial in contact................................................................. 4
4a. Three supralabials anterior to the posteroventral angle of the subocular........................ P. iridescens
4b. Four supralabials anterior to the posteroventral angle of the subocular....................... P. machupicchu
5a. Two to three supraoculars....................................................................... 6
5b. Four supraoculars...................................................................... P. pachyurus
6a. Venter uniformly dark or with dark stippling or mottling near lateral scale rows........................... 7
6b. Venter clear yellow or orange without dark mottling........................................ P. guentheri
7a. No continuous series of lateral ocelli............................................................. 8
7b. Continuous series of lateral ocelli...................................................... P. unsaacae
8a. Frontonasal scale longer than frontal scale........................................................ 9
8b. Frontonasal scale equal in length to frontal scale................................................... 10
9a. Limbs overlapping when adpressed..................................................... P. sucullucu
9b. Limbs not overlapping when adpressed................................................ .. P. bolivianus
10a. First supraocular not fused with first superciliary.................................................. 11
10b. First supraocular fused with first superciliary............................................. P. carabaya
11a. Absence of loreal scale................................................................... P. lacertus
11b. Presence of loreal scale.................................................................. P. kiziriani
description: Published as part of Mamani, Luis, Goicoechea, Noemí & Chaparro, Juan C., 2015, A new species of Andean lizard Proctoporus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from montane forest of the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, Peru, pp. 1-11 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 96) (e 96) 9 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11148735