Editing Kentropyx

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| name = ''Kentropyx''
| image = Kentropyx pelviceps 319379797 (cropped).jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Kentropyx pelviceps]]'' (forest whiptail)
| taxon = Kentropyx
| authority = [[Johann Baptist von Spix|Spix]], 1825<ref>"''Kentropyx'' ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.</ref>
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision = 9 species, ''see text.''
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'''''Kentropyx''''' is a [[genus]] of whiptail lizards in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Teiidae]]. The genus is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[South America]] including [[Trinidad]] and [[Barbados]].<ref name="RDB"/>

==Species==
There are nine valid [[species]] in this genus (listed alphabetically by [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]]).<ref name="RDB">[http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Kentropyx&exact%5B0%5D=genus&submit=Search ''Kentropyx'']. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
*''[[Kentropyx altamazonica]]'' <small>([[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1876)</small> – Cocha whiptail
*''[[Kentropyx borckiana]]'' <small>([[Wilhelm Peters|W. Peters]], 1869)</small> – Guyana kentropyx
*''[[Kentropyx calcarata]]'' <small>[[Johann Baptist von Spix|Spix]], 1825</small> – striped forest whiptail
*''[[Kentropyx lagartija]]'' <small>[[:fr:José María Alfonso Félix Gallardo|Gallardo]], 1962</small> – Tucuman whiptail
*''[[Kentropyx paulensis]]'' <small>([[Oskar Boettger|Boettger]], 1893)</small> – Boettger's kentropyx
*''[[Kentropyx pelviceps]]'' <small>(Cope, 1868)</small> – forest whiptail<!-- Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi 15: 181 -->
*''[[Kentropyx striata]]'' <small>([[François Marie Daudin|Daudin]], 1802)</small> – Suriname striped whiptail
*''[[Kentropyx vanzoi]]'' <small>[[species:Daniel Stephen Gallagher Jr.|Gallagher]] & [[James R. Dixon|Dixon]], 1980</small> – Gallagher's kentropyx
*''[[Kentropyx viridistriga]]'' <small>([[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1894)</small> – green kentropyx

''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Kentropyx''.

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger GA]] (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II ... Teiidæ'' ...'''.''' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I–XXIV. (Genus "''Centropyx'' [sic]", p.&nbsp;339).
*[[Johann Baptist von Spix|Spix JB]] (1825). ''Animalia nova sive species nova lacertarum, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII &ndash; MDCCCXX jussu et auspicius Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae Regis.'' Munich: F.S. Hübschmann. iv + 26 pp. + Plates I–XXVIII. (''Kentropyx'', new genus, p.&nbsp;21). (in Latin).


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[[Category:Kentropyx| ]]
[[Category:Lizard genera]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix]]

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