Enyalioides is a genus of lizards in the family Hoplocercidae. The genus is native to the northern part of South America and Panama. Species in the genus are commonly referred to as woodlizards, although individual species are also called dwarf iguanas.

Species The following 19 species are recognized as being valid. Image Scientific name Common name DistributionEnyalioides altotambo tropical northwestern Andes in EcuadorEnyalioides anisolepis Amazonian slopes of the Andes range in southern Ecuador and northern Peru. Enyalioides annularis ringed manticore, ringed spinytail iguana Ecuador, southern ColombiaEnyalioides azulae PeruEnyalioides binzayedi PeruEnyalioides cofanorum Cofán wood lizard, Duellman's dwarf iguana Colombia and EcuadorEnyalioides feiruzae Río Huallaga Basin, PeruEnyalioides groi Gro’s manticores, Dunn's spinytail lizard, Dunn's spinytail iguana Panama, northwestern ColombiaEnyalioides heterolepis Bocourt's dwarf iguana Colombia, Ecuador, PanamaEnyalioides laticeps Amazon wood lizard Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and PeruEnyalioides microlepis small-scaled woodlizard, tiny-scale dwarf iguana Ecuador (east of the Andes), southern Colombia, northern PeruEnyalioides oshaughnessyi red-eyed woodlizard, O'Shaughnessy's dwarf iguana northern Ecuador, southern ColombiaEnyalioides palpebralis horned wood lizard northern Bolivia, western Brazil, and eastern PeruEnyalioides peruvianus Cenepa manticore northern PeruEnyalioides praestabilis blue-spotted wood lizard Colombia, Ecuador, and PeruEnyalioides rubrigularis red-throated wood lizard EcuadorEnyalioides rudolfarndti central PeruEnyalioides sophiarothschildae Cordillera Central in northeastern PeruEnyalioides touzeti Touzet's woodlizard southwestern Ecuador (Azuay Province), northwestern Peru Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Enyalioides.

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Further reading

Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. Iguanidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I–XXIV. (Enyaliodes, new genus, p. 112).