Endangered
Enyalioides altotambo
Enyalioides altotambo
Enyalioides altotambo is a lizard or snake in the family Hoplocercidae, recorded as Endangered and tied to Ecuador.
Appearance
The holotype adult male had a light green head with a few black and dark brown scales. The superciliaries, canthals and labials are yellow. There is a wide bluish-cream blotch behind the tympanum and the pretympanic scales are bluish-cream.
It had a snout–vent length of 119 mm. The only known females is similar to the male in its coloration and scalation, although larger, with a snout–vent length of 134 mm.
Range and habitat
Enyalioides altotambo is only known from two adjacent localities at 620–645 m in the Chocoan rainforests of northwestern Ecuador. One female was found at in the evening with its head facing up on a tree trunk. It is endemic to the tropical northwestern Andes in Ecuador.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Enyalioides altotambo is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Enyalioides altotambo, Wikidata item Q19773657. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
