Callopistes

{{Short description|Genus of lizards}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Miocene|Recent}} | image = Callopistes flavipunctatus.jpg | image_caption = False monitor (''Callopistes flavipunctatus'') | taxon = Callopistes | authority = Gravenhorst, 1838 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * ''C. flavipunctatus'' {{small|(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron), 1839}} * ''C. maculatus'' {{small|Gravenhorst, 1838}} * †''C. bicuspidatus'' {{small|Deschamps & Tomassini, 2016}} * †''C. rionegrensis'' {{small|Quadros et al., 2018}} }}

'''''Callopistes''''' is a genus of lizards in the family Teiidae. The genus contains two extant species, which are native to Ecuador, Peru, and Chile, as well as two fossil species found in Argentina.

==Species== Listed alphabetically.<ref>[http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Callopistes&exact%5B0%5D=genus&submit=Search ''Callopistes'']. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- | 190x190px || ''Callopistes flavipunctatus'' <small>(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839)</small> |False monitor || Peru and Ecuador. |- | 190x190px || ''Callopistes maculatus'' <small>Gravenhorst, 1838</small> |Spotted false monitor|| Chile |- |}

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

===Fossils=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- | || †''Callopistes bicuspidatus'' || Monte Hermoso Formation, Argentina<ref>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=198863 Farola Monte Hermoso] at Fossilworks.org</ref> |- | frameless|| †''Callopistes rionegrensis'' || Chichinales Formation, Argentina<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Quadros, Ana B. |author1-link=species:Ana Bottallo Quadros |author2=Chafrat, Pablo |author3=Zaher, Hussam |author3-link=Hussam Zaher |year=2018 |title=A new teiid lizard of the genus ''Callopistes'' Gravenhorst, 1838 (Squamata, Teiidae), from the lower Miocene of Argentina |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=38 |issue= 4|pages=(1)-(18) |doi=10.1080/02724634.2018.1484754 |s2cid=91195492 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/7117517 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> |- |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== *Gravenhorst JLC (1838). "''Beiträge zur genaueren Kenntniss einiger Eidechsengattungen'' ". ''Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher / Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae'' '''18''' (2): 712–784. (''Callopistes'', new genus, pp. 743–744). (in German).

Category:Callopistes Category:Lizard genera Category:Lizards of South America Category:Taxa named by Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst