Callopistes is a genus of lizards in the family Teiidae. The genus contains two extant species, which are native to Ecuador, Peru, and Chile, as well as two fossil species found in Argentina.
Species Listed alphabetically.Callopistes. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. Image Scientific name Common name Distribution Callopistes flavipunctatus (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839)False monitor Peru and Ecuador. Callopistes maculatus Gravenhorst, 1838Spotted false monitor Chile
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Callopistes.
Fossils Image Scientific name Distribution †Callopistes bicuspidatus Monte Hermoso Formation, ArgentinaFarola Monte Hermoso at Fossilworks.org †Callopistes rionegrensis Chichinales Formation, Argentina
References
Further reading Gravenhorst JLC (1838). "Beiträge zur genaueren Kenntniss einiger Eidechsengattungen ". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher / Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae 18 (2): 712–784. (Callopistes, new genus, pp. 743–744). (in German).