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    Species Accepted

    Salvator merianae Duméril & Bibron, 1839

    Argentine Black and White Tegu
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Salvator
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      38 results
      Argentine Black and White Tegu English
      Argentine Black-and-white Tegu English
      Argentine giant tegu English
      Argentine tegu English
      Argentinsk Tegu Danish
      Black Tegu English
      Black-and-white Tegu English
      Jacuraru Portuguese
      Lagarto Portuguese
      Lagarto Overo Spanish

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      181 results
      CARDOZO, GABRIELA, SERGIO NARETTO, CECILIA BLENGINI & MARGARITA CHIARAVIGLIO. (2023). Reproductive Strategies in Relation to Maternal Phenotype in a Model Lizard (Salvator merianae). South American Journal of Herpetology 26(1): 1–10.
      Böhme, & Wolfgang. (2014). Herpetology in Bonn. Mertensiella 21. Vi + 256 Pp.
      Manzani, Paulo Roberto, Abe, & Augusto Shinya. (2002). A new species of Tupinambis Daudin, 1803 from Southeastern Brazil (Squamata, Teiidae). Arquivos Do Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro 60 (4): 295-302.
      DUBEUX, M. J. M., SOUZA, U. F., LOURENÇO-DE-MORAES, R. I. C. A. R. D. O., PEREIRA-FILHO, G. A., SALES, R. F., DELFIM, F. R., ... & NUNES, P. M. (2025). Amphisbaenians and lizards of the Pernambuco Endemism Center: species richness, sampling gaps, and conservation status in one of the most threatened regions of the Atlantic Forest. Anais Da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 97, E20240284.
      Vaz-Silva, W. et al. (2007). Herpetofauna, Espora Hydroelectric Power Plant, state of Goiás, Brazil. Check List 3 (4): 338-345.
      Imhoff, Carolina; Federico Giri, Pablo Siroski, Patricia Amavet. (2018). Analysis of morphological variability and heritability in the head of the Argentine Black and White Tegu (Salvator merianae): undisturbed vs. disturbed environments. Zoology 127: 47-62.
      Srbek-Araujo, A. C., Sousa, J. A. C., Campinhos, E. C., Nóbrega, Y. C., & Clemente-Carvalho, R. B. G. (2017). Salvator merianae (Teiú, Black-and-White Tegu) Poaching. Herpetological Review 48 (3): 660-661.
      Freitas, Marco Antonio de; Arthur Diesel Abegg, Iuri Ribeiro Dias, Elbano Paschoal de Figueiredo Moraes. (2018). Herpetofauna from Serra da Jibóia, an Atlantic Rainforest remnant in the state of Bahia, northeastern Brazil. Herpetology Notes 11: 59-72.
      Linares, & Antônio Meira and Paula Cabral Eterovick. (2013). Herpetofaunal Surveys Support Successful Reconciliation Ecology in Secondary and Human-Modified Habitats at the Inhotim Institute, Southeastern Brazil. Herpetologica 69 (2): 237-256.
      Couto-Ferreira, Danilo; Moacir Santos Tinôco, Magno Lima Travassos de Oliveira, Henrique Colombini Browne-Ribeiro, Cecil Pergentino Fazolato, Ricardo Marques da Silva, Gilvana Santos Barreto & Marcelo Alves Dias. (2011). Restinga lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) at the Imbassaí Preserve on the northern coast of Bahia, Brazil. Journal of Threatened Taxa 3 (8): 1990–2000.

      Citation

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