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    Species Accepted

    Hoplocercus spinosus Fitzinger, 1843

    Brazilian Spiny-tailed Lizard
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Hoplocercus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Brazilian Spiny-tailed Lizard English
      Jacarezinho-da-Chapada Portuguese
      Jacarezinho-do-Cerrado Portuguese
      Lagarto-Espinhoso Portuguese
      Lagarto-Rabo-de-Abacaxi Portuguese
      Lagarto-Roseta Portuguese
      Lagarto-de-Cauda-Espinhosa Portuguese
      Lagarto-de-Cauda-Espinhuda Portuguese
      Pitoco Portuguese
      Rabo-de-Roseta Portuguese

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      33 results
      Gonçalves, José N.A.; Leonardo F.B. Moreira, Tainá F. Dorado-Rodrigues, Natália P. Smaniotto, Matheus O. Neves, Victória L.B. Silva, and Christine Strüssmann. (2025). Diversity of Amphibians and Reptiles of the Parque Sesc Serra Azul: A Transition Zone in Midwestern Brazil. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 20(3), 539–549.
      Ceriaco, Luis M. P. (2014). Some historical notes about the possible precedence of “Lacerta xiphidiura” Carvalho, 1836, as the first identification of the Brazilian Spiny-tailed Lizard Hoplocercus spinosus Fitzinger, 1843, and general remarks on early nineteenth century Portuguese zoology. Bibliotheca Herpetologica 11 (1-2): 42-55.
      Dorado-Rodrigues, T. F., Valadão, R. M., Valério, L. M., Castro, C. P. D., & Strüssmann, C. (2025). Herpetofauna from a protected area situated in a biogeographic transition zone in Central South America. Biota Neotropica, 25(1), E20241681.
      Peters, James A. & Donoso-Barros, Roberto. (1970). Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part II. Lizards and Amphisbaenians. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 293 Pp.
      Uetz, P. H., Patel, M., Gbadamosi, Z., Nguyen, A., & Shoope, S. (2024). A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732.
      Uchôa LR, Delfim FR, Mesquita DO, Colli GR, Garda AA, & Guedes TB. (2022). Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Caatinga, northeastern Brazil: Detailed and updated overview. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 599-659.
      Valdujo, Paula Hanna; Cristiano de Campos Nogueira; Leandro Baumgarten; Flavio Henrique Guimarães Rodrigues; Reuber Albuquerque Brandão; André Eterovic; Mário Barroso Ramos-Neto; Otavio A. V. Marques. (2009). Squamate Reptiles from Parque Nacional das Emas and surroundings, Cerrado of Central Brazil. Check List 5 (3): 405–417.
      Marra Santos, F. J. (2024). Checklist of the herpetofauna in an area of the Cerrado Biome, Central Brazil, under strong mining pressure. Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity, 9(1), 332-354.
      Torres-Carvajal, Omar; RICHARD ETHERIDGE & KEVIN DE QUEIROZ. (2011). A systematic revision of Neotropical lizards in the clade Hoplocercinae (Squamata: Iguania). Zootaxa 2752: 1–44.
      Torres-Carvajal, Omar; Fernanda P. Werneck, Igor Yuri Fernandes & Kevin de Queiroz. (2023). Spiny tails and Clades: A Fully Sampled phylogeny of hoplocercine lizards (Iguanidae/ Hoplocercinae) and its taxonomic and nomenclatural Implications. Bull. Phylogenet. Nom. 001 (1): 00 –02.

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