There is confusion as to scientific and common names of the genus Tupinambis. I researched and supply the following. Keep in mind, I am not a scientist. I merely researched through published papers to locate this information. I hope you find it useful.

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Species :
Tupinambis merianae (Duméril & Bibron, 1839)

Common Name(s) :
Argentine Black & White Tegu, Giant Tegu

Distribution :
Brazil (Amazonas, Rio Grande do Sul), N. Argentinia, Uruguay, Bolivia (Santa Cruz)

Notes :
Tupinambis merianae (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) was until 1 August 2000 listed as T. teguixin (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Species :
Tupinambis teguixin (Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name(s) :
Colombian Black Tegu, Columbian Black Tegu, Colombian Black & White Tegu, Columbian Black & White Tegu, Common Tegu, Black Banded Tegu, Golden Tegu, Schw.-Weiss oder Bänderteju

Distribution :
Brazil (Amazonas, Acre, Amapa, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Para, Rondonia, Roraima, Rio Grande do Sul, Bahia), Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Trinidad, N Argentinia (Buenos Aires, La Pampa, San Luis, Córdoba), Uruguay, Bolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, Pando, Santa Cruz), Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana

Notes :
Tupinambis teguixin (Linnaeus, 1758) was until 1 August 2000 listed as Tupinambis nigropunctatus (Spix, 1824)

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Species :
Tupinambis rufescens (Günther, 1871)

Common Name(s) :
Argentine Red Tegu, Red Tegu, Paraguay Red Tegu, Roter Teju

Distribution :
W. Argentinia (Chaco, La Rioja, San Juan, Mendoza, Córdoba, San Luis, La Pampa), Paraguay, Brazil (Parana), Bolivia (Beni, Santa Cruz, Tarija)

Notes :

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Species :
Tupinambis quadrilineatus (Manzani & Abe, 1997)

Common Name(s) :
Four-striped Tegu

Distribution :
Central Brazil (Cerrado biome)

Notes :

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Species :
Tupinambis palustris (Manzani & Abe, 2002)

Common Name(s) :
None Available

Distribution :
Central Brazil (Sao Paulo)

Notes :
Tupinambis palustris is mainly characterized by its ground color on dorsum, black intervened by small gray spots; black spots scattered on the gular surface and neck; large black spots scattered on belly; everted hemipenis shallowly forked with a well defined groove and two large petalas on each crown horn distally, larger than in T. teguixin, the closely related. In color, the new species also differs from other Tupinambis species of T. merianae group and T. teguixin by the absence of transverse banded pattern on back. It differs from T. quadrilineatus by the absence of whitish-yellow longitudinal narrow stripes on flanks, and from T. longilineus by the absence of a wide black band on flanks (from the abstract of MANZANI & ABE 2002).

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Species :
Tupinambis duseni (Lönnberg, 1896) (Lonnberg and Andersson 1910)

Common Name(s) :
Yellow Tegu

Distribution :
Brazil (Goias)

Notes :
Sympatric with T. teguixin and T. merianae (Abe et al. 1992), at least in Goias, Brazil. Status uncertain; paraphyetic with other Tupinambis forms (see Fitzgerald et al. 1999).

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Species :
Tupinambis longilineus (Avila-Pirez, 1995)

Common Name(s) :
Rondonia Tegu

Distribution :
West Amazon, Brazil

Notes :
Sympatric with T. teguixin. This is the rarest of species of the genus.

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Published on: 2004-12-10 (4592 reads)