Kentropyx

Kentropyx is a genus of whiptail lizards in the family Teiidae. The genus is endemic to South America including Trinidad and Barbados.^[2]

Kentropyx
Kentropyx pelviceps (forest whiptail)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Teiidae
Subfamily:	Teiinae
Genus:	Kentropyx Spix, 1825[1]
Species
9 species, see text.

Species

There are nine valid species in this genus (listed alphabetically by specific name).^[2]

• Kentropyx altamazonica (Cope, 1876) – Cocha whiptail
• Kentropyx borckiana (W. Peters, 1869) – Guyana kentropyx
• Kentropyx calcarata Spix, 1825 – striped forest whiptail
• Kentropyx lagartija Gallardo, 1962 – Tucuman whiptail
• Kentropyx paulensis (Boettger, 1893) – Boettger's kentropyx
• Kentropyx pelviceps (Cope, 1868) – forest whiptail
• Kentropyx striata (Daudin, 1802) – Suriname striped whiptail
• Kentropyx vanzoi Gallagher & Dixon, 1980 – Gallagher's kentropyx
• Kentropyx viridistriga (Boulenger, 1894) – green kentropyx

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Kentropyx.

References

1. "Kentropyx ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
2. Kentropyx. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II ... Teiidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I–XXIV. (Genus "Centropyx [sic]", p. 339).
• Spix JB (1825). Animalia nova sive species nova lacertarum, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII – MDCCCXX jussu et auspicius Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae Regis. Munich: F.S. Hübschmann. iv + 26 pp. + Plates I–XXVIII. (Kentropyx, new genus, p. 21). (in Latin).