Stenocercus haenschi (Werner, 1901)
Haensch's whorltail iguana
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Liocephalus haenschi Werner, 1901; Ophryoessoides haenschi (Werner, 1901)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1901
Since rediscovered
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Balzapamba, Provincia Bolivar, Ecuador
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Werner, F. (1901). Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Ecuador und Neu-Guinea. Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 51: 593-614.
Other references:
Burt, C. E. and Burt, M. D. (1933). A preliminary check list of the lizards of South America. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 28: 1-104.
Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. (2017). Stenocercus haenschi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T178690A54447325. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T178690A54447325.en. Downloaded on 18 October 2017.
Etheridge, Richard E. (1966). The systematic relationships of West Indian and South American lizards referred to the iguanid genus Leiocephalus. Copeia 1966(1): 79-91.
Fritts, Thomas H. (1974). A multivariate evolutionary analysis of the Andean Iguanid lizards of the genus Stenocercus. San Diego Society of Natural History Memoir 7: 1-89.
Regalado, Pedro Galán. (2015). Los Anfibios y Reptiles Extinguidos: Herpetofauna Desaparecida Desde el Año 1500. Monografías de la Universidade da Coruña 155: 1-509.
Torres-Carvajal, Omar. (2000). Ecuadorian lizards of the genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Tropiduridae). Scientific papers of the Natural History Museum, University of Kansas 15: 1-38.
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Stenocercus&species=haenschi
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/16880/stenocercus-haenschi-haenschs-whorltail-iguana
https://www.tropicalherping.com/articles/two_lizard_species_rediscovered.html