{{Short description|Genus of lizards}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = ''Kentropyx'' | image = Kentropyx pelviceps 319379797 (cropped).jpg | image_caption = ''Kentropyx pelviceps'' (forest whiptail) | taxon = Kentropyx | authority = Spix, 1825<ref>"''Kentropyx'' ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 9 species, ''see text.'' }}
'''''Kentropyx''''' is a genus of whiptail lizards in the family Teiidae. The genus is endemic to South America including Trinidad and Barbados.<ref name="RDB"/>
==Species== There are nine valid species in this genus (listed alphabetically by specific name).<ref name="RDB">[http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Kentropyx&exact%5B0%5D=genus&submit=Search ''Kentropyx'']. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref> *''Kentropyx altamazonica'' <small>(Cope, 1876)</small> – Cocha whiptail *''Kentropyx borckiana'' <small>(W. Peters, 1869)</small> – Guyana kentropyx *''Kentropyx calcarata'' <small>Spix, 1825</small> – striped forest whiptail *''Kentropyx lagartija'' <small>Gallardo, 1962</small> – Tucuman whiptail *''Kentropyx paulensis'' <small>(Boettger, 1893)</small> – Boettger's kentropyx *''Kentropyx pelviceps'' <small>(Cope, 1868)</small> – forest whiptail<!-- Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi 15: 181 --> *''Kentropyx striata'' <small>(Daudin, 1802)</small> – Suriname striped whiptail *''Kentropyx vanzoi'' <small>Gallagher & Dixon, 1980</small> – Gallagher's kentropyx *''Kentropyx viridistriga'' <small>(Boulenger, 1894)</small> – green kentropyx
''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Kentropyx''.
==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 "''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).
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Category:Kentropyx Category:Lizard genera Category:Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix
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