Enyalioides cofanorum, also known commonly as the Cofan woodlizard, Duellman's dwarf iguana, and lagartija de palo cofanes in Spanish, is a species of lizard in the family Hoplocercidae. The species is native to northwestern South America.
Etymology The specific name, cofanorum, is in honor of the Cofán people of Ecuador.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Enyalioides cofanorum, p. 56).
Geographic range E. cofanorum is found in Colombia and Ecuador. www.reptile-database.org.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of E. cofanorum is forest, at altitudes of .
Description As an adult E. cofanorum does not exceed in snout-to-vent length (SVL).
Diet E. cofanorum preys upon earthworms, insects, and spiders.
Reproduction E. cofanorum is oviparous. Clutch size is 2–5 eggs.
References
Further reading Duellman WE (1973). "Descriptions of New Lizards from the Upper Amazon Basin". Herpetologica 29 (3): 228–231. (Enyalioides cofanorum, new species). Lewis TR (2002). "Threats facing endemic herpetofauna in the cloud forest reserves of Ecuador". Herpetological Bulletin (79): 18–26. (Enyalioides cofanorum, p. 21). Torres-Carvajal O, Etheridge R, de Queiroz K (2011). "A systematic revision of Neotropical lizards in the clade Hoplocercinae (Squamata: Iguania)". Zootaxa 2752: 1–44. (Enyalioides cofanorum, p. 12).