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<h3 class="taxon_description_header"> Description from <select name="from" id="from"><option value="Eol">EOL</option> <option value="Inaturalist">iNaturalist</option> <option selected="selected" value="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</option></select> <a class="externallink ui" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupinambis_cryptus">View on Wikipedia →</a> </h3> <div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Species of lizard</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238732961">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota tr{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota img{background:transparent}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota tr{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota img{background:white}}.mw-parser-output .infobox.biota .taxobox-edit-taxonomy img{background:transparent!important}body.skin-vector .mw-parser-output table.biota.infobox{margin-top:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output table.biota.infobox tr.taxonrow td{padding:2px 10px}</style> <p><i><b>Tupinambis cryptus</b></i>, the <b>cryptic golden tegu</b>, is a species of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard" title="Lizard">lizard</a> in the family <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teiidae" title="Teiidae">Teiidae</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RDB_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RDB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is found in Venezuela, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana" title="French Guiana">French Guiana</a>, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil, Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago. </p> <div class="mw-heading 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title="Autotomy">regrown</a> tail, Trinidad</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 135.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 133.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tupinambis_cryptus_30896867.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Roadkill with an autotomized tail, Venezuela."><img alt="Roadkill with an autotomized tail, Venezuela." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Tupinambis_cryptus_30896867.jpg/250px-Tupinambis_cryptus_30896867.jpg" decoding="async" width="134" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Tupinambis_cryptus_30896867.jpg/330px-Tupinambis_cryptus_30896867.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Tupinambis_cryptus_30896867.jpg/500px-Tupinambis_cryptus_30896867.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200"></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Roadkill with an <a 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Tupinambis_cryptus_29445150.jpg/250px-Tupinambis_cryptus_29445150.jpg" decoding="async" width="134" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Tupinambis_cryptus_29445150.jpg/330px-Tupinambis_cryptus_29445150.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Tupinambis_cryptus_29445150.jpg/500px-Tupinambis_cryptus_29445150.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200"></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Inspecting bread, Trinidad</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 143.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 141.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tupinambis_cryptus_354488662.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Trinidad"><img alt="Trinidad" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Tupinambis_cryptus_354488662.jpg/250px-Tupinambis_cryptus_354488662.jpg" 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href="https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php">"Appendices | CITES"</a>. <i>cites.org</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2022-01-14</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=cites.org&amp;rft.atitle=Appendices+%7C+CITES&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcites.org%2Feng%2Fapp%2Fappendices.php&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATupinambis+cryptus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-RDB-2"> <span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-RDB_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species.php?genus=Tupinambis&amp;species=cryptus"><i>Tupinambis cryptus</i></a> at the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/">Reptarium.cz Reptile Database</a>. 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4em"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Taxon_identifiers" title="Help:Taxon identifiers">Taxon identifiers</a></div></th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;"><i>Tupinambis cryptus</i></th> <td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata" title="Wikidata">Wikidata</a>: <span class="uid"><span class="external"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29053541" class="extiw" title="wikidata:Q29053541">Q29053541</a></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies" title="Wikispecies">Wikispecies</a>: <span class="uid"><span class="external"><a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tupinambis_cryptus" class="extiw" title="wikispecies:Tupinambis cryptus">Tupinambis cryptus</a></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogue_of_Life" title="Catalogue of Life">CoL</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/8GQGS">8GQGS</a></span></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Life" title="Encyclopedia of Life">EoL</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eol.org/pages/47045261">47045261</a></span></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Biodiversity_Information_Facility" title="Global Biodiversity Information Facility">GBIF</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gbif.org/species/9074741">9074741</a></span></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INaturalist" title="INaturalist">iNaturalist</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://inaturalist.org/taxa/540274">540274</a></span></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Biotechnology_Information" title="National Center for Biotechnology Information">NCBI</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&amp;id=2202508">2202508</a></span></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observation.org" title="Observation.org">Observation.org</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://observation.org/species/939926/">939926</a></span></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Tree_of_Life" title="Open Tree of Life">Open Tree of Life</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Reptilia

Order: Squamata

Family: Teiidae

Genus: Tupinambis

Species: Cryptic Golden Tegu Tupinambis cryptus