Chioninia carranzai Mateo et al., 2022
Santo Antâo giant lizard
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025)
Last record: "After 1462 AD" (Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025)
Distribution & Habitat
Santo Antão, Cape Verde Islands, Macaronesia
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Mateo, J. A., Geniez, P., Veiret, P. and López-Jurado, L. F. (2022). Reptiles de Macaronesia. Azores-Madeira-Salvajes-Canarias-Cabo Verde. Madrid, Spain: Asociación Herpetológica Española. 473 pp. [NB: not all of the book's authors may be responsible for the scientific description of this taxon]
Other references:
Fernández-Palacios, José María, Fructuoso, Melania, Illera, Juan Carlos, Rando, Juan Carlos, de Nascimento, Lea, Fernández-Palacios, Enrique, Patiño, Jairo, Otto, Rüdiger, Castilla-Beltrán, Álvaro, González, Esther Martín, Orihuela-Rivero, Raúl, Alcover, Josep Antoni, Whittaker, Robert J. (2025). A synthesis of terrestrial species extinctions in the Macaronesian Islands and their correspondence with human occupancy. PNAS Nexus 4(8): pgaf215. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf215 [Supplementary data (.docx)]