
The next day I ran into Mitch, who said that he thought something about the shape of the lizard's head didn't seem right for Plica umbra, and he compared with some other photos and concluded that it was in fact a tiny baby Enyalioides laticeps, a species that neither of us had yet seen, and which I particularly wanted to see as it would be my first representative of the lizard family Hoplocercidae. Dick Bartlett took a look at the photos and agreed with Mitch, so there you have it: new species for my life list, in a new genus, in a new family. Good thing I had bothered to take a photo, even if it is a pretty crappy one.
Here is a complete list of the herps I saw in the wild on my 2013 MT Amazon Expeditions trip.


Here is a complete list of the herps I saw in the wild on my 2014 MT Amazon Expeditions trip.




My Travelogues and Trip Lists page includes a complete list of the herps I saw in the wild on my 2016 MT Amazon Expeditions trip.


My Travelogues and Trip Lists page includes a complete list of the herps I saw in the wild on my 2016 MT Amazon Expeditions trip.
- Enyalioides laticeps account on The Reptile Database
- Bartlett, R.D., and Bartlett, P. 2003. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Amazon: An Ecotourist's Guide
- Dixon, J. R. and Soini, P. 1986. The Reptiles of the Upper Amazon Basin, Iquitos Region, Peru
- Duellman, W.E. 2005. Cusco Amazónico: The Lives of Amphibians and Reptiles in an Amazonian Rainforest