title: Callopistes
text: # Callopistes
  
  Callopistes is a lizard genus in the family Teiidae. It includes two extant species, which are native to Ecuador, Peru and Chile.
  
  ## Species
  
  Listed alphabetically.
  
  | Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Callopistes flavipunctatus (Duméril & Bibron 1839) | False monitor | Peru and Ecuador. |
  | | Callopistes maculatus Gravenhorst 1838 | Spotted false monitor | Chile |
  
  ### Fossils
  
  | Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
  | - | - | - |
  | | †Callopistes bicuspidatus, | Monte Hermoso Formation, Argentina |
  | | †Callopistes rionegrensis, | Chichinales Formation, Argentina |
  