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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.


Taxonomy of the family Opluridae
Bibliography of the genus Chalarodon
Biodiversity of the family Opluridae








Genus
Chalarodon

Madagascar Ground Iguanas

Madagascar-Erdleguane

Madagascar-jordleguaner

1837 Tropidogaster Dumeril & Bibron [nomen rejectum] (type species: Tropidogaster blainvillii Dumeril & Bibron 1837; syn. International Commision on Zoological Nomenclature (1971): Opinion 955)
1843 Tritropis Fitzinger [nomen rejectum] (type species: Tropidogaster blainvillii Dumeril & Bibron 1837; syn. International Commision on Zoological Nomenclature (1971): Opinion 955)
1854 Chalarodon Peters (type species: Chalarodon madagascariensis Peters 1854)
Contents: 2 species, both of which are endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Distribution: Madagascar.

Chalarodon madagascariensis

Keel-bellied Madagascar Ground Iguana

Kielbäuchiger Madagascar-Erdleguan

Kølbuget Madagascar-jordleguan

1837 Tropidogaster blainvillii Dumeril & Bibron [nomen rejectum] (International Commision on Zoological Nomenclature (1971): Opinion 955)
Ptychosaurus blainvillii Fitzinger 1843
Tropidurus ? blainvillii Boulenger 1885
1854 Chalarodon madagascariensis Peters

Distribution: Madagascar.


Chalarodon steinkampi

Smooth-bellied Madagascar Ground Iguana

Glattbäuchiger Madagascar-Erdleguan

Glatbuget Madagascar-jordleguan

2015 Chalarodon steinkampi Miralles, Glaw, Ratsoavina & Vences

Distribution: Madagascar.