Oreosaurus shrevei, known commonly as the luminous lizard or Shreve's lightbulb lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The species is endemic to the Northern Range of mountains of the island of Trinidad in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. This species was for some time erroneously alleged to be bioluminescent (hence its common name - luminous lizard).
Etymology The specific name, shrevei, is in honor of American herpetologist Benjamin Shreve.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Riama shrevei, p. 243).
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of O. shrevei is tropical montane forest, at altitudes of , where it utilizes rock crevices and leaf litter on the forest floor, on stream banks and at the mouths of caves.
Reproduction O. shrevei is oviparous.
References
Further reading Knight, C. M., W. H. N. Gutzke, and V. C. Quesnel. 2004. Shedding light on the Luminous lizard (Proctoporus shrevei) of Trinidad. Caribbean Journal of Science 40(3): 422-426
Parker HW (1935). "The New Teiid Lizard in Trinidad". Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad 12 (11): 283.