Casuhatien Anole

The lizard or snake

Description It was originally described by José María Gallardo, in 1968, with new specimens that reinforced the collection made by Mauricio Rumboll.

This named form is a lizard or snake. The public files give taxonomy, a photograph, and a threat category — not a monograph.

Range and habitat

It is an endemism of the Ventania mountain ranges, a massif in the southwest of the province of Buenos Aires, in the central-eastern area of Argentina. The Ventana copper lizard, Ventana lizard, or Casuhatí lizard is a lizard in the family Liolaemidae, endemic to central Argentina. It is related to other species of the genus Pristidactylus that inhabit plateaus of the Southern Cone.

GBIF currently lists 64 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

In crisis

This lizard is in danger of extinction according to the Argentine Herpetological Association (AHA). According to Chébez, its degree of danger is more serious, that is why he recommended that it be included in the category: critically endangered.

Casuhatien Anole is Critically 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 Casuhatien Anole — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q5265801 and GBIF occurrence geography. 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.