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Leptosiaphos Rhomboidalis
''Leptosiaphos'' is a genus of skinks Endemism, endemic to West Africa. Species The following 18 species are recognized:. www.reptile-database.org. *''Leptosiaphos aloysiisabaudiae'' - Uganda five-toed skink *''Leptosiaphos amieti'' - Cameroon five-toed skink *''Leptosiaphos blochmanni'' - Zaire three-toed skink *''Leptosiaphos dewittei'' - De Witte's leaf-litter skink, De Witte's five-toed skink *''Leptosiaphos dungeri'' *''Leptosiaphos fuhni'' - Fuhn's five-toed skink *''Leptosiaphos graueri'' - Rwanda five-toed skink *''Leptosiaphos hackarsi'' - Hackars's five-toed skink *''Leptosiaphos hylophilus'' - Laurenti's five-toed skink *''Leptosiaphos ianthinoxantha'' - yellow and violet-bellied mountain skink *''Leptosiaphos kilimensis'' - Kilimanjaro five-toed skink *''Leptosiaphos koutoui'' *''Leptosiaphos luberoensis'' - Witte's five-toed skink *''Leptosiaphos meleagris'' - Ruwenzori four-toed skink *''Leptosiaphos pauliani'' *''Leptosiaphos rhodurus'' - red fiv ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leptosiaphos Graueri
The Rwanda five-toed skink (''Leptosiaphos graueri'') is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. It is found in Africa. References Leptosiaphos Reptiles described in 1912 Taxa named by Richard Sternfeld {{skink-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Chirio
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Laurent may refer to: *Laurent (name), a French masculine given name and a surname **Saint Laurence (aka: Saint ''Laurent''), the martyr Laurent **Pierre Alphonse Laurent, mathematician **Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, amateur astronomer, discoverer of minor planet (51) Nemausa *Laurent, South Dakota, a proposed town for the Deaf to be named for Laurent Clerc See also *Laurent series, in mathematics, representation of a complex function ''f(z)'' as a power series which includes terms of negative degree, named for Pierre Alphonse Laurent *Saint-Laurent (other) *Laurence (name), feminine form of "Laurent" *Lawrence (other) Lawrence may refer to: Education Colleges and universities * Lawrence Technological University, a university in Southfield, Michigan, United States * Lawrence University, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States Preparato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Ineich
Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgarian tsar Ivan Vladislav. It is very popular in Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Belarus, North Macedonia, and Montenegro and has also become more popular in Romance-speaking countries since the 20th century. Etymology Ivan is the common Slavic Latin spelling, while Cyrillic spelling is two-fold: in Bulgarian, Russian, Macedonian, Serbian and Montenegrin it is Иван, while in Belarusian and Ukrainian it is Іван. The Old Church Slavonic (or Old Cyrillic) spelling is . It is the Slavic relative of the Latin name , corresponding to English ''John''. This Slavic version of the name originates from New Testament Greek (''Iōánnēs'') rather than from the Latin . The Greek name is in tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leptosiaphos Koutoui
''Leptosiaphos koutoui'' is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Cameroon and is only known from the Adamaoua Massif near Meiganga. Etymology The specific name, ''koutoui'', is in honor of Denis Koulagna Koutou, former Director of Wildlife and Protected Areas in Cameroon.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Leptosiaphos koutoui'', p. 146). Reproduction ''L. koutoui'' is oviparous Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), a .... References Leptosiaphos Skinks of Africa Reptiles of Cameroon Endemic fauna of Cameroon Reptiles described in 2004 Taxa named by Ivan Ineich Taxa named by Andreas Schmitz Taxa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonhard Stejneger
Leonhard Hess Stejneger (30 October 1851 – 28 February 1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist. Stejneger specialized in vertebrate natural history studies. He gained his greatest reputation with reptiles and amphibians. Wetmore, Alexander (1945). "Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1851-1943)". ''Biographical Memoir. Nat. Acad. Sci.'' 24: 145-195PDF/ref> Early life and family Stejneger was born in Bergen, Norway. His father was Peter Stamer Steineger, a merchant and auditor; his mother was Ingeborg Catharine (née Hess). Leonhard was the eldest of seven children. His sister Agnes Steineger was a Norwegian artist. Until 1880, the Steineger family had been one of the wealthy families in Bergen; at that time business reverses led to the father declaring bankruptcy. Stejneger attended the Smith Theological School in Bergen from 1859 to 1860, and Bergen Latin School until 1869. His interests in zoology developed early. By age sixteen he had a pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leptosiaphos Kilimensis
''Leptosiaphos kilimensis'', commonly known as the Kilimanjaro five-toed skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. It is found in Kenya, Tanzania, and South Sudan. References Leptosiaphos Reptiles described in 1891 Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger {{skink-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leptosiaphos Ianthinoxantha
The yellow and violet-bellied mountain skink (''Leptosiaphos ianthinoxantha'') is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. It is found in Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west- central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; th .... References Leptosiaphos Reptiles described in 1975 Reptiles of Cameroon Endemic fauna of Cameroon Taxa named by Wolfgang Böhme (herpetologist) Fauna of the Cameroonian Highlands forests {{skink-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Ferdinand Laurent
Raymond Ferdinand Louis-Philippe Laurent (16 May 1917 – 3 February 2005) was a Belgian herpetologist, who specialized in African and South American amphibians and reptiles. He published more than 200 scientific articles and book chapters. Several species have been named after him, most recently '' Phymaturus laurenti'' in 2010. Additional species of reptiles named in his honor include '' Chironius laurenti'', ''Liolaemus laurenti ''Liolaemus laurenti'' is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. It is found in Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. A ...'', and '' Mehelya laurenti''.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Laurent", p. 152). References Further reading * ''(First page freely available online, remainder available to subscrib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leptosiaphos Hylophilus
Laurenti's five-toed skink (''Leptosiaphos hylophilus'') is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. It is found in Zaire Zaire (, ), officially the Republic of Zaire (french: République du Zaïre, link=no, ), was a Congolese state from 1971 to 1997 in Central Africa that was previously and is now again known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zaire was, .... References Leptosiaphos Reptiles described in 1982 Taxa named by Raymond Laurent Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo {{skink-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
