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Gold Tegu
Tupinambis teguixin (Linnaeus, 1758)

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to Brazil, Paraguay, eastern Uruguay, and northern Argentina. It was introduced via the pet trade in 1990 in Seminole County, Florida but did not establish (Anonymous, 1990, The League of Florida Herpetological Societies Newsletter 1990: 24; Krysko et al., 2011, Zootaxa 3028: 1–64) and has since been found and established in many other areas in Florida (Krysko et al., 2011, op. cit.; Krysko et al., 2016, Reptiles & Amphibians. 23: 110–143; Edwards et al., 2017, BioInvasions Records 6: 407–410; Edwards and Rochford, 2019, Tupinambis teguixin. Pages 437–438 in Krysko et al. (Editors) Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida).

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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1758 Linné, Carl von (=Linneaus). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [System of Nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species with characters, differences, synonyms, places.] 10th Edition, Volume 1, L. Salvius, Stockholm. iv + 826pp.
2011 Krysko, Kenneth L., Joseph P. Burgess, Michael R. Rochford, Christopher R. Gillette, Daniel Cueva, Kevin M. Enge, Louis A. Somma, Jennifer L. Stabile, Dustin C. Smith, Joseph A. Wasilewski, Guy N. Kieckhefer III, Michael C. Granatosky & Stuart V. Nielsen. Verified non-indigenous amphibians and reptiles in Florida from 1863 through 2010: Outlining the invasion process and identifying invasion pathways and stages. Zootaxa 3028(1):1-64
2017 Edwards, Jake R., Jennifer K. Ketterlin, Michael R. Rochford, Rodney Irwin, Kenneth L. Krysko, James G. Duquesnel, Frank J. Mazzotti, and Robert N. Reed. The Gold Tegu, Tupinambis teguixin (Linnaeus, 1758) sensu lato (Squamata: Teiidae): evidence for an established population in Florida BioInvasions Records 6(4):407–410

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