Enyalioides microlepis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881), QCAZ

Camper, Jeffrey D., Torres-Carvajal, Omar, Ron, Santiago R., Nilsson, Jonas, Arteaga, Alejandro, Knowles, Travis W. & Arbogast, Brian S., 2021, Amphibians and reptiles of Wildsumaco Wildlife Sanctuary, Napo Province, Ecuador, Check List 17 (3), pp. 729-751 : 741-742

Enyalioides microlepis (O’Shaughnessy, 1881)

Material examined. ECUADOR • 1 adult; Napo Prov- ince, WWS, F.A.C.E. Trail; 00.6797°S, 077.6008°W; 22 July 2016; QCAZ 14834 .

Identification. Enyalioides are the largest lizards known

from WWS, and they have large heads and an enlarged vertebral row of scales. This species lacks enlarged scales on the back (other than the vertebral row), flanks, and limbs. It has>40 dorsolateral scales at midbody and strongly keeled ventral scales.

Habitat. The single specimen of this species found in this study was sleeping on low vegetation about 30 cm above the ground in primary forest.