Red-throated Woodlizard

About the Red-throated Woodlizard

The red-throated woodlizard (Enyalioides rubrigularis) is a species of reptile in the genus Enyalioides, native to Ecuador and Peru. Enyalioides rubrigularis was formally described in 2019 based on an adult male specimen collected from near Piuntza in the Zamora-Chinchipe Province, Ecuador. The name rubrigularis derives from the Latin words ruber, meaning red, and gula, meaning throat. It refers to the species' characteristic orange or reddish throat and chin.

The adult male holotype has mostly green or yellow scales on the top and side of the head, with black margins forming a reticulate pattern. Some scales on the head are entirely black, while the labials and mental scale are orange with black margins. The rostral scale is green medially and black laterally and the gular scales are orange with black margins. A few of the lateral gulars are green or yellow. The skin between the gulars is black and there is no black gular patch. There are six enlarged greenish-cream scales that form a distinct spot posterior to the tympanum. The paraverterbrals and caudals are green or dark brown and the flanks are mottled with lemon-green scales. The dorsal limb scales... Wikipedia →