Tupinambis is a lizard genus which belongs to the family Teiidae and contains eight described species. These large lizards are commonly referred to as tegus ( teiús in Portuguese ). T. …

Salvator merianae (once known as Tupinambis merianae), the Argentine black and white tegu, is a large reptile native to South America. There are significant populations of Argentine black …

Tegu, (genus Tupinambis), any of about seven large, carnivorous, tropical South American lizards of the family Teiidae. The background colour of most species is black. Some have yellow, …

Tupinambis merianae is sometimes referred to as the black tegu (Yanosky and Mercolli 1992 b , Duarte Varela and Cabrera 2000), and it was usually called the common tegu when it was …

Colombian and Argentine tegus are a collection of species classified under the genera Tupinambis and Salvator. Learn more about all 7 tegu species here.

Tupinambis cryptus, the cryptic golden tegu, is a species of lizard in the family Teiidae. [2] It is found in Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil, Colombia and Trinidad and …

The gold tegu, also known as golden tegu, common tegu, black tegu, Colombian tegu, and tiger lizard (on Trinidad), is a species of tegu. Its old scientific name (synonym) was Tupinambis …