Thecadactylus rapicauda HOUTTUYN 1782
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| An account of the collection of lizards made by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador, and now in the British Museum, with descritions of the new species A W E O'shaughnessy (1881) Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1881: 227-241 | |
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| A preliminary list of the reptiles and batrachians of the island of Trinidad R R Mole and F W Urich (1894) Journal of the Trinidad Field Naturalists' Club 2: 77-90 | |
| Vertebrata from the Savanna of Panama. Reptilia; Amphibia T Barbour (1906) Bulletin of The Museum of Comparative Zoology 46: 211-230 | |
| A list of the South American lizards of the Carnegie Museum, with descriptions of four new species L E Griffin (1917) Ann. Carnegie Mus. 11: 304-320 | |
| Typical reptiles and amphibians in the Museum of Comparative Zoology T Barbour and A Loveridge (1929) Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 69: 205-360 | |
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| Herpetological collections from the West Indies made by Dr. Paul Bartsch under The Walter Rathbone Bacon Scholarship, 1928-1930 D M Cochran (1934) Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 92(7): 1-48 | |
| Third list of Antillean reptiles and amphibians Thomas Barbour (1937) Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 82(2): 77-166 | |
| Reptiles and amphibians from the Lesser Antilles collected by Dr. S. T. Danforth D M Cochran (1938) Proc. Biol. Soc, Washington 51: 147-155 | |
| The amphibians and reptiles of British Honduras K P Schmidt (1941) Field Museum of Natural History Publication. Zoological Series 22: 475-510 | |
| An annotated checklist and key to the snakes of Mexico H M Smith and E H Taylor (1945) US Natl. Mus. Bull. 187: 1-239 | |
| Amphibians and reptiles of the Hopkins-Branner Expedition to Brazil Karl P Schmidt and Robert F Inger (1951) Fieldiana Zoology 31(42): 439-465 | |
| A review of the lizards of Costa Rica Edward H Taylor (1956) Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 38(1): 3-322 | |
| Amphibians and reptiles of the rainforests of southern El Petén, Guatemala W E Duellman (1963) University of Kansas Publications. Museum of Natural History 15: 205-249 | |
| Amphibians and reptiles from the Yucatán Peninsula, México W E Duellman (1965) Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist 15: 577-614 | |
| The lizards of Ecuador, a checklist and key J A Peters (1967) Proc. US. Natl. Mus 119: 1-49 | |
| Interspecific Competition in the Tropical Rain Forest: Ecological Distribution Among Lizards at Bel A Stanley Rand (1968) Proc. US. Natl. Mus 125: 1-17 | |
| Herpetofauna tobagana Robert Mertens (1972) Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde aus dem Staatlichen Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart 252: 1-22 |