Ecpleopus

{{Short description|Genus of lizards}} {{speciesbox | image = Ecpleopus gaudichaudii 01.jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Colli, G.R. |author-link=species:Guarino Rinaldi Colli |author2=Fenker, J. |author2-link=species:Jéssica Fenker |author3=Tedeschi, L. |author3-link=species:Leonardo G. Tedeschi |author4=Bataus, Y.S.L. |author4-link=species:Yeda S. de L. Bataus |author5=Uhlig, V.M. |author6=Lima, A. |author7=Nogueira, C. de C. |author7-link=species:Cristiano de Campos Nogueira |author8=Borges-Nojosa, D.M. |author8-link=species:Diva Maria Borges-Nojosa |author9=Costa, G.C. |author9-link=species:Gabriel C. Costa |author10=de Moura, G.J.B. |author10-link=species:Geraldo Jorge Barbosa de Moura |author11=Winck, G. |author11-link=species:Gisele R. Winck |author12=Silva, J.R.S. |author13=Viñas, L.V. |author13-link=species:Laura Verrastro Viñas |author14=Ribeiro Júnior, M.A. |author14-link=species:Marco Antônio Ribeiro-Júnior |author15=Hoogmoed, M.S. |author15-link=species:Marinus Steven Hoogmoed |author16=Tinôco, M.S.T. |author16-link=species:Moacir Santos Tinôco |author17=Almeida-Santos, P. |author17-link=species:Patrícia Almeida dos Santos |author18=Valadão, R. |author18-link=species:Rafael Martins Valadão |author19=de Oliveira, R.B. |author20=Avila-Pires, T.C.S. |author20-link=species:Teresa Cristina Sauer de Ávila-Pires |author21=Ferreira, V.L. |author22=de Menezes, V.A. |date=2019 |title=''Ecpleopus gaudichaudii '' |volume=2019 |article-number=e.T134883848A135333738 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T134883848A135333738.pt |access-date=18 November 2021}} (in English and Portuguese).</ref> | genus = Ecpleopus | parent_authority = A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839<ref>"''Ecpleopus'' ". ''Dahms Tierleben''. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Scincomorpha/Gymnophthalmidae.</ref> | species = gaudichaudii | authority = A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839<ref name="RDB">{{EMBL species|genus=Ecpleopus|species=gaudichaudii}} www.reptile-database.org.</ref> | synonyms = *''Arthroseps werneri'' <br />{{small|Boulenger, 1898}} *''Alopoglossus gracilis'' <br />{{small|F. Werner, 1913}} *''Arthroseps fluminensis'' <br />{{small|Amaral, 1933}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name="RDB"/> }}

'''''Ecpleopus''''' is a genus of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The genus contains only one species, '''''Ecpleopus gaudichaudii''''', which is endemic to Brazil.<ref name="RDB"/>

==Etymology== The specific name, ''gaudichaudii'', is in honor of French botanist Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Ecpleopus gaudichaudii'', p. 99).</ref>

==Geographic range== ''E. gaudichaudii'' is found in the Atlantic Forest in the Brazilian states of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, and São Paulo.<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021"/>

==Habitat== The preferred natural habitat of ''E. gaudichaudii'' is forest, where it lives in the leaf litter on the forest floor.<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021"/>

==Description== ''E. gaudichaudii'' may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about {{cvt|5|cm|in}}. Its legs are short, and its tail is laterally compressed.<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021"/>

==Diet== ''E. gaudichaudii'' preys upon small invertebrates such as termites, orthopterans, and spiders.<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021"/>

==Reproduction== ''E. gaudichaudii'' is oviparous.<ref name="RDB"/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==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 ''Ecpleopus'', p. 401; species ''E. gaudichaudii'', p. 401). *Duméril AMC, Bibron G (1839). ''Erpétologie générale ou Histoire naturelle complète des Reptiles. Tome cinquième'' [Volume 5]. Paris: Roret. viii + 854 pp. (''Ecpleopus'', new genus, pp. 434–436; ''Ecpleopus gaudichaudii'', new species, pp. 436–438). (in French). *Uzzell, Thomas (1969). "The Status of the Genera ''Ecpleopus'', ''Arthroseps'', and ''Aspidolaemus'' (Sauria, Teiidae)". ''Postilla'' (135): 1-23.

Category:Gymnophthalmidae Category:Fauna of the Atlantic Forest Category:Spectacled lizards of Brazil Category:Endemic reptiles of Brazil Category:Monotypic lizard genera Category:Taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril Category:Taxa named by Gabriel Bibron