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Chondrodactylus Angulifer Angulifer
''Chondrodactylus'' is genus of geckos, lizards in the family Gekkonidae. The genus is commonly known as thick-toed geckos. Little is known of their biology. Species and subspecies The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid. *'' Chondrodactylus angulifer'' – common giant ground gecko **''Chondrodactylus angulifer angulifer'' **''Chondrodactylus angulifer namibensis'' *''Chondrodactylus bibronii'' – Bibron's thick-toed gecko www.reptile-database.org. *'' Chondrodactylus fitzsimonsi'' – Fitzsimons's thick-toed gecko *'' Chondrodactylus laevigatus'' – Fischer's thick-toed gecko *'' Chondrodactylus pulitzerae'' – Pulitzer's thick-toed gecko *''Chondrodactylus turneri'' – Turner's thick-toed gecko ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Common Giant Ground Gecko
''Chondrodactylus angulifer'', also known as the common giant ground gecko, the South African ground gecko, or the Namib sand gecko, is a species of gecko, a lizard in the Family (biology), family Gekkonidae. The species is Endemism, endemic to southern Africa. Geographic range ''Chondrodactylus angulifer'' is found in Namibia, southernmost Botswana, and western South Africa. Description ''Chondrodactylus angulifer'' is a large gecko. Adults average snout-to-vent length (SVL). The record size is a male SVL.:fr:William Roy Branch, Branch, Bill (2004). ''Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa''. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. . (''Chondrotactylus angulifer'', pp. 237-238 + Plate79). Reproduction An adult female ''C. angulifer'' may lay a Clutch (eggs), clutch of one or two eggs. The eggs are almost spherical, . Each hatchling is approximately total length (including tail). Subspecies There are two subspecies which are recognized as b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Loveridge
Arthur Loveridge (28 May 1891 – 16 February 1980) was a British people, British biologist and Herpetology, herpetologist who wrote about animals of East Africa, particularly Tanzania, and of New Guinea. He gave Binomial nomenclature, scientific names to several gecko species in those regions. Life Arthur Loveridge was born in Penarth, Wales, and was interested in natural history from childhood. He gained experience with the National Museum Cardiff, National Museum of Wales and Manchester Museum before becoming the curator of the Nairobi Museum (now the National Museums of Kenya, National Museum of Kenya) in 1914. During World War I, WW1, he joined the King's African Rifles#First World War, East African Mounted Rifles, later returning to the museum to build up the collections. He then became an assistant game warden in Tanganyika (territory), Tanganyika. In 1924, he joined the Museum of Comparative Zoology in the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chondrodactylus
''Chondrodactylus'' is genus of geckos, lizards in the Family (biology), family Gekkonidae. The genus is commonly known as thick-toed geckos. Little is known of their biology. Species and subspecies The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid. *''Chondrodactylus angulifer'' – common giant ground gecko **''Chondrodactylus angulifer angulifer'' **''Chondrodactylus angulifer namibensis'' *''Chondrodactylus bibronii'' – Gabriel Bibron, Bibron's thick-toed gecko www.reptile-database.org. *''Chondrodactylus fitzsimonsi'' – Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons, Fitzsimons's thick-toed gecko *''Chondrodactylus laevigatus'' – Fischer's thick-toed gecko *''Chondrodactylus pulitzerae'' – Pulitzer's thick-toed gecko *''Chondrodactylus turneri'' – James Aspinall Turner, Turner's thick-toed gecko ''Nota bene'': A Binomial nomenclature, binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Chond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binomial Nomenclature
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages. Such a name is called a binomial name (often shortened to just "binomial"), a binomen, name, or a scientific name; more informally, it is also called a Latin name. In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), the system is also called nomenclature, with an "n" before the "al" in "binominal", which is a typographic error, meaning "two-name naming system". The first part of the name – the '' generic name'' – identifies the genus to which the species belongs, whereas the second part – the specific name or specific epithet – distinguishes the species within the genus. For example, modern humans belong to the genus ''Homo'' and within this genus to the species ''Hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nota Bene
( ; plural: ) is the Latin language, Latin phrase meaning ''note well''. In manuscripts, ''nota bene'' is abbreviated in upper-case as NB and N.B., and in lower-case as n.b. and nb; the editorial usages of ''nota bene'' and ''notate bene'' first appeared in the English writing style, English style of writing around the year 1711. In Modern English, since the 14th century, the editorial usage of ''NB'' is common to the legal writing, legal style of writing of documents to direct the reader's attention to a thematically relevant aspect of the subject that qualifies the matter being litigated, whereas in academic writing, the editorial abbreviation ''n.b.'' is a casual synonym for ''footnote''. In medieval manuscripts, the editorial marks used to draw the reader's attention to a supporting text also are called marks; however, the catalogue of medieval editorial marks does not include the NB abbreviation. The medieval equivalents to the n.b.-mark are anagrams derived from the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Aspinall Turner
James Aspinall Turner (1797 – 28 September 1867) was a British businessman, entomologist and Whig politician. He was the son of John Turner of Mayfield, near Bolton, and his wife, Elizabeth Aspinall of Liverpool.''Obituary'', The Gentleman's Magazine, 28 September 1867. He was a descendant of John Turner who had fought against the Old Pretender in 1715.''Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society 1867''. Turner was a prominent cotton manufacturer and merchant in Manchester and was elected to membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 29.4.1836 He made his home at Pendlebury Hall and was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant of Lancashire. In 1845, he formed the Manchester Commercial Association. The association, of which he was president, was a protectionist body that broke away from the pro-free trade Manchester Chamber of Commerce. In the mid-nineteenth century the parliamentary borough of Manchester was represented by two Radical members of par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The same is used for a zoological name. Gray was keeper of zoology at the British Museum in London from 1840 until Christmas 1874, before the natural history holdings were split off to the Natural History Museum. He published several catalogues of the museum collections that included comprehensive discussions of animal groups and descriptions of new species. He improved the zoological collections to make them amongst the best in the world. Biography Gray was born in Walsall, but his family soon moved to London, where Gray studied medicine. He assisted his father in writing ''The Natural Arrangement of British Plants'' (1821). After being blackballed by the Linnean Society of London, Gray shifted his interest from botany to zoology. He began his zoological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chondrodactylus Turneri
Turner's thick-toed gecko (''Chondrodactylus turneri'') is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to southern Africa. Description ''C. turneri'' is large and robust, with a snout-vent length (SVL) of . Etymology The specific name, ''turneri'', is in honor of British entomologist James Aspinall Turner. Geographic range ''C. turneri'' is found in Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Branch (2004). Behaviour Turner's thick-toed gecko is nocturnal and lives on rocks and buildings.Alexander, Graham; Marais, Johan (2007). ''A Guide to the Reptiles of Southern Africa''. Cape Town: Struik. 408 pp. . (''Chondrodactylus turneri'', pp. 311-313). Diet ''C. turneri'' is an ambush predator and feeds on invertebrates and whatever else it can catch and overpower. Reproduction ''C. turneri'' is oviparous Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zyg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Patterson Schmidt
Karl Patterson Schmidt (June 19, 1890 – September 26, 1957) was an American herpetologist. Family Schmidt was the son of George W. Schmidt and Margaret Patterson Schmidt. George W. Schmidt was a German professor, who, at the time of Karl Schmidt's birth, was teaching in Lake Forest, Illinois. His family left the city in 1907 and settled in Wisconsin. They worked on a farm near Stanley, Wisconsin, where his mother and his younger brother died in a fire on August 7, 1935. The brother, Franklin J. W. Schmidt, had been prominent in the then-new field of wildlife management. Karl Schmidt married Margaret Wightman in 1919, and they had two sons, John and Robert. Education In 1913, Schmidt entered Cornell University to study biology and geology. In 1915, he discovered his preference for herpetology during a four-month training course at the Perdee Oil Company in Louisiana. In 1916, he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts and made his first geological expedition to Santo Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chondrodactylus Pulitzerae
Pulitzer's thick-toed gecko (''Chondrodactylus pulitzerae'') is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to southern Africa. Etymology The specific name, ''pulitzerae'', is feminine, genitive, singular. Schmidt did not specify whom he meant to honor. It may commemorate Margaret Pulitzer, second wife of Ralph Pulitzer, both of whom were members of the Pulitzer Angola Expedition, or it may commemorate their infant daughter who had died of polio. Geographic range ''C. pulitzerae'' is found from northern Namibia through southern Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c .... References Further reading * Schmidt KP (1933). "The Reptiles of the Pulitzer Angola Expedition". ''Annals of the Carnegie Museum'' 22 (1): 1–15. (''Pachydact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Gustav Fischer
Johann Gustav Fischer (1 March 1819, Hamburg – 27 January 1889) was a German herpetologist. He served as an instructor at the Johanneum in Hamburg, and was associated with the city's ''Naturhistorisches Museum'', working extensively with its herpetological and ichthyological collections. He was the binomial author of numerous herpetological species, and has several species named in his honor: *"Fischer's cat snake" ('' Toxicodryas pulverulenta''), 1856. *" Fischer's chameleon" (''Kinyongia fischeri)'', described by Anton Reichenow in 1887. *"Fischer's dwarf gecko" ('' Lygodactylus fischeri)'', described by George Albert Boulenger in 1890. *"Fischer’s snail-eating snake" ('' Tropidodipsas fischeri)'', described by George Albert Boulenger in 1894. *"Fischer's thick-toed gecko" ('' Pachydactylus laevigatus''), 1888. In the field of ichthyology, he described the genera ''Sclerocottus'' (Cottidae) and ''Gymnelichthys'' (Zoarcidae). Published works Many of his scientific papers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chondrodactylus Laevigatus
Button-scaled gecko (''Chondrodactylus laevigatus'') is a species of African gecko found in South Africa, Namibia, and Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c .... References laevigatus Reptiles of South Africa Reptiles of Namibia Reptiles of Angola Reptiles described in 1888 {{Gekkonidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
