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Genus of lizards For the place in Romania, see Teiuș.

Teius

Teius oculatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Teiidae
Subfamily:	Teiinae
Genus:	Teius Merrem, 1820

Teius is a genus of lizards in the family Teiidae. The genus is native to South America.

Species

The genus Teius contains the following three species, listed alphabetically.

Teius oculatus (D’Orbigny & Bibron, 1837)
Teius suquiensis Ávila & Martori, 1991
Teius teyou (Daudin, 1802) – four-toed tegu

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Teius.

References

Teius. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

Merrem B (1820). Versuch eines Systems der Amphibiens. Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum. Marburg: J.C. Krieger. xv + 191 pp. + plate. (Teius, new genus, p. 60). (in German and Latin).

Taxon identifiers
Teius	Wikidata: Q586703 Wikispecies: Teius ADW: Teius CoL: 7TD6 EoL: 35418 GBIF: 2472025 iNaturalist: 38938 IRMNG: 1437674 ITIS: 208965 NCBI: 68349

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