Colobosauroides is a small genus of lizards in the family Gymnophthalmidae."Colobosauroides ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Gymnophthalmidae."Colobosauroides ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org The genus Colobosauroides is endemic to Brazil.
Geographic range Species in the genus Colobosauroides are found in northeastern Brazil, in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Ceará.
Species The genus Colobosauroides includes only the following two species:
Colobosauroides carvalhoi M. Soares & Caramaschi, 1998 Colobosauroides cearensis da Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991
Etymology The specific name, carvalhoi, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Antenor Leitão de Carvalho.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Colobosauroides carvalhoi, p. 49).
References
Further reading da Cunha OR, Lima-Verde JS, Lima ACM (1991). "Novo genero e espécie de lagarto do Estado do Ceará (Lacertilia: Teiidae)". Boletim Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Nova Série Zoologia 7 (2): 163–176. (Colobosauroides, new genus; C. cearensis, new species). (in Portuguese). Soares M, Caramaschi U (1998). "Espécie nova de Colobosauroides Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991 do estado da Bahia, Brasil (Squamata, Sauria, Gymnophthalmidae)". Bol. Mus. Nac. Nov. Sér., Rio de Janeiro 388: 1–8. (Colobosauroides carvalhoi, new species). (in Portuguese).