Mamani Luis, Rodríguez Lily O
Universidad Señor de Sipán, Chiclayo, Perú 2Programa de Doctorado en Sistemática y Biodiversidad, Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción (UdeC), Concepción, Chile 3Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (MHNC), Cusco, Perú.
Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (MUSM), Lima, Perú. Centro de Conservación, Investigación y Manejo de Áreas Naturales (CIMA), Lima, Perú.
Zootaxa. 2022 Nov 23;5213(1):75-85. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5213.1.5.
The gymnophthalmid Andean lizards of the genus Proctoporus (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae) are semifossorial species that inhabit the montane forests, inter-Andean valley, and humid grasslands across the Cordillera de los Andes from Peru to Argentina. The distribution range of Proctoporus is discontinuous, with many places lacking herpetological surveys. Here, based on morphological data, we describe a new species of Proctoporus from a remote location on a mountaintop north of the Cordillera de Vilcabamba in southeastern Peru. The new species is readily distinguished from all other species of Proctoporus by the presence of three anterior infralabials, three rows of pregular scales and the absence of enlarged pregular scales. With this new species, the species diversity has increased to 19 since 18 species have previously been identified.
裸眼蜥属（Gymnophthalmidae科，Cercosaurinae亚科）的安第斯裸眼蜥是半穴居物种，栖息于从秘鲁到阿根廷的安第斯山脉的山地森林、安第斯山间谷地和湿润草原。裸眼蜥的分布范围不连续，许多地方缺乏爬行动物学调查。在此，基于形态学数据，我们描述了一种来自秘鲁东南部比尔卡班巴山脉以北山顶偏远地区的新裸眼蜥物种。该新物种很容易通过具有3枚前下唇鳞、3排颏前鳞且无扩大的颏前鳞与裸眼蜥属的所有其他物种区分开来。随着这个新物种的发现，物种多样性已增至19种，此前已鉴定出18种。
