Tracheloptychus

Tracheloptychus
Tracheloptychus madagascariensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Gerrhosauridae
Subfamily:Zonosaurinae
Genus:Tracheloptychus
W. Peters, 1854

Tracheloptychus is a small genus of plated lizards endemic to Madagascar.[1][2]

Species

There are two species:[3][4]

  • Tracheloptychus madagascariensis W. Peters, 1854 – Malagasy keeled plated lizard, Madagascar girdled lizard
  • Tracheloptychus petersi Grandidier, 1869 – Peters' keeled plated lizard

Etymology

The specific name, petersi, is in honor of German herpetologist Wilhelm Peters, who is the author of this genus.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Raselimanana A, Vences M (2011). Tracheloptychus madagascariensis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2.
  2. ↑ Rakotondravony H, Raselimanana A, Ramanamanjato J-B, Raxworthy CJ (2011). Tracheloptychus petersi. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2.
  3. ↑ Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary. National Academy of Sciences. National Academies Press. 2005. pg. 209.
  4. ↑ "Tracheloptychus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  5. ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Tracheloptychus petersi, pp. 204-205).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Gerrhosauridæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Genus Tracheloptychus, p. 129; species T. madagascariensis, p. 129; species "T. petersii [sic]", p. 130).
  • Grandidier A (1869). "Descriptions de quelques animaux nouveaux découverts, pendant l'année 1869, sur la côte ouest de Madagascar ". Revue et Magazine de Zoologie pure et appliquée (Paris), Series 2, 21: 337-342. (Tracheloptychus petersi, new species, pp. 339–340). (in French).
  • Peters [W] (1854). "Diagnosen neuer Batrachier, welche zusammen mit der früher (24. Juli und 17. August) gegebenen Übersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden ". Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1854: 614-628. (Tracheloptychus, new genus, p. 617; T. madagascariensis, new species, pp. 617–618). (in German and Latin).


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