Chalcides ragazzii

Chalcides ragazzii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Scincidae
Genus:Chalcides
Species: C. ragazzii
Binomial name
Chalcides ragazzii
Boulenger, 1890
Synonyms[1]
  • Chalcides ocellatus Var. ragazzii
    Boulenger, 1890
  • Chalcides ocellatus ragazzii
    — Mertens, 1921
  • Chalcides ragazzii
    — G. Pasteur, 1981

Chalcides ragazzii, commonly called Ragazzi's cylindrical skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Africa.

Geographic range

C. ragazzii is found from Algeria (Ahaggar Mountains), Niger, northern Somalia and northern Kenya, to Ethiopia, Eritrea, and south-eastern Sahara.[1]

Description

C. ragazzii is a large, pentadactyl skink (that is, it has five digits on each limb).[1]

Etymology

The specific name, ragazzii, is in honor of the collector of the holotype, Italian physician Dr. Vincenzo Ragazzi (1856–1929) of the Modena Natural History Society.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Chalcides ragazzii ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
  2. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Chalcides ragazzii, p. 216).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1890). "On the Varieties of Chalcides ocellatus, Forsk." Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sixth Series 5: 444-445. (Chalcides ocellatus Var. Ragazzii, new variety, p. 444).


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