Yanomamia hoogmoedi is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The species is endemic to Guyana.
Etymology The specific name, hoogmoedi, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Marinus Steven Hoogmoed.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Arthrosaura hoogmoedi, p. 125).
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of Y. hoogmoedi is forest, at altitudes around .
Reproduction Y. hoogmoedi is oviparous.
References
Further reading Goicoechea N, Frost DR, De la Riva I, Pellegrino KCM, Sites J Jr, Rodrigues MT, Padial JM (2016). "Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment". Cladistics 32 (6): 624–671. (Loxopholis hoogmoedi, new combination). Kok PJR (2008). "A new highland species of Arthrosaura Boulenger, 1885 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Maringma tepui on the border of Guyana and Brazil". Zootaxa 1909: 1–15. (Arthrosaura hoogmoedi, new species). Pellegrino KCM, Brunes TO, Souza SM, Laguna MM, Avila-Pires TCS, Hoogmoed MS, Rodrigues MT (2018). "On the distinctivness of Amapasaurus, its relationship with Loxopholis Cope 1869, and description of a new genus for L. guianensis and L. hoogmoedi (Gymnophthalmoidea/Ecpleopodini: Squamata)". Zootaxa 4441 (2): 332–346. (Yanomamia hoogmoedi, new combination).