# Ecpleopus

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{{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](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Marie_Constant_Dum%C3%A9ril) & [Bibron](/source/Gabriel_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](/source/George_Albert_Boulenger), 1898}}
*''Alopoglossus gracilis'' <br />{{small|[F. Werner](/source/Franz_Werner), 1913}}
*''Arthroseps fluminensis'' <br />{{small|[Amaral](/source/Afr%C3%A2nio_Pomp%C3%ADlio_Gastos_do_Amaral), 1933}}
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="RDB"/>
}}

'''''Ecpleopus''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of lizard in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Gymnophthalmidae](/source/Gymnophthalmidae). The genus contains only one [species](/source/species), '''''Ecpleopus gaudichaudii''''', which is [endemic](/source/Endemism) to [Brazil](/source/Brazil).<ref name="RDB"/>

==Etymology==
The [specific name](/source/Specific_name_(zoology)), ''gaudichaudii'', is in honor of [French](/source/French_people) [botanist](/source/Botany) [Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré](/source/Charles_Gaudichaud-Beaupr%C3%A9).<ref>[Beolens, Bo](/source/species%3ABo_Beolens); [Watkins, Michael](/source/species%3AMichael_Watkins); 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](/source/Atlantic_Forest) in the Brazilian states of [Espírito Santo](/source/Esp%C3%ADrito_Santo), [Minas Gerais](/source/Minas_Gerais), [Rio de Janeiro](/source/Rio_de_Janeiro_(state)), [Santa Catarina](/source/Santa_Catarina_(state)), and [São Paulo](/source/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_(state)).<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021"/>

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

==Description==
''E. gaudichaudii'' may attain a [snout-to-vent length](/source/Snout%E2%80%93vent_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](/source/Predation) upon small [invertebrate](/source/invertebrate)s such as [termite](/source/termite)s, [orthopterans](/source/Orthoptera), and [spider](/source/spider)s.<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021"/>

==Reproduction==
''E. gaudichaudii'' is [oviparous](/source/Oviparity).<ref name="RDB"/>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[Boulenger GA](/source/George_Albert_Boulenger) (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](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Marie_Constant_Dum%C3%A9ril), [Bibron G](/source/Gabriel_Bibron) (1839). ''Erpétologie générale ou Histoire naturelle complète des Reptiles. Tome cinquième'' [Volume 5]. Paris: Roret. viii + 854 pp. (''Ecpleopus'', new genus, pp.&nbsp;434–436; ''Ecpleopus gaudichaudii'', new species, pp.&nbsp;436–438). (in [French](/source/French_language)).
*[Uzzell, Thomas](/source/species%3AThomas_Marshall_Uzzell%2C_Jr.) (1969). "The Status of the Genera ''Ecpleopus'', ''Arthroseps'', and ''Aspidolaemus'' (Sauria, Teiidae)". ''Postilla'' (135): 1-23.

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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

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