Cophoscincopus

Cophoscincopus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Scincidae
Genus:Cophoscincopus
Mertens, 1934[1]

Cophoscincopus (common name: keeled water skinks) is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to West Africa.[2][3] As suggested by the common name, species in the genus Cophoscincopus are semi-aquatic.[4]

Species

There are four recognized species in the genus Cophoscincopus.[2]

  • Cophoscincopus durus (Cope, 1862)
  • Cophoscincopus greeri Böhme, Schmitz & Ziegler, 2000
  • Cophoscincopus senegalensis J.-F. Trape, Mediannikov & S. Trape, 2012
  • Cophoscincopus simulans (Vaillant, 1884)

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

Etymology

The specific name, greeri, is in honor of Australian herpetologist Allen Eddy Greer.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Cophoscincopus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/lacertilia/scincomorpha/scincidae/eugongylinae. (in German).
  2. 1 2 Cophoscincopus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  3. ↑ "Cophoscincopus — Keeled Water Skinks". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  4. ↑ Bauer, Aaron M.; Jackman, Todd R. (2008). "Global diversity of lizards in freshwater (Reptilia: Lacertilia)". Hydrobiologia. 595 (1): 581–586.
  5. ↑ 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. (Cophoscincopus greeri, p. 108).

Further reading

  • Mertens R (1934). "Die Inseln-Reptilien, ihre Ausbreitung, Variation und Artbildung ". Zoologica Stuttgart 32 (84): 1-209. (in German).


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