Alopoglossus gorgonae is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is native to northwestern South America.
Etymology The specific name, gorgonae, refers to the type locality, Gorgona Island, Colombia.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Ptychoglossus gorgonae, p. 104).
Geographic range A. gorgonae is found in southwestern Colombia and adjacent northwestern Ecuador.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of A. gorgonae is forest, at altitudes from sea level to .
Reproduction A. gorgonae is oviparous.
References
Further reading Castro-Herrera, Fernando; Valencia-Aguilar, Anyelet, Villaquirán-Martínez, Diego F. (2012). Diversidad de Anfibios y Reptiles del Parque Nacional Gorgona: Herpetofauna de la isla Gorgona en el Pacífico colombiano, Legado de la naturaleza que se atrapó en este refugio de vida. Cali: Laboratorio de Herpetología, Deparamento de Biología, Universidad del Valle. 112 pp. . (Ptychoglossus gorgonae). Harris DM (1994). "A Review of the Teiid Lizard Genus Ptychoglossus ". Herpetological Monographs 8: 226–275. (Ptychoglossus gorgonae, new species, p. 244). Hernández-Morales C, Sturaro MJ, Nunes PMS, Lotzkat S, Peloso PL (2020). "A species-level total evidence phylogeny of the microteiid lizard family Alopoglossidae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea)". Cladistics 36 (3): 301–321. (Alopoglossus gorgonae, new combination). Torres-Carvajal O, Pazmiño-Otamendi G, Salazar-Valenzuela D (2019). "Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich online portal, with dynamic checklists and photographic guides". Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1) [General Section]: 209–229 (e178). (Ptychoglossus gorgonae).