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Riama Mosaic-tailed Rat
''Riama'' is a genus of lizards in the Family (biology), family Gymnophthalmidae. The genus is Endemism, endemic to South America. Species The genus ''Riama'' contains 16 species which are recognized as being valid. www.reptile-database.org. *''Riama anatoloros'' *''Riama antioquensis'' *''Riama balneator'' *''Riama cashcaensis'' – Kizorian's lightbulb lizard *''Riama colomaromani'' *''Riama columbiana'' – Colombian lightbulb lizard *''Riama inanis'' *''Riama labionis'' *''Riama meleagris'' – brown lightbulb lizard *''Riama orcesi'' *''Riama raneyi'' *''Riama simotera'' – O'Shaughnessy's lightbulb lizard *''Riama stigmatoral'' *''Riama striata'' – striped lightbulb lizard, *''Riama unicolor'' – drab lightbulb lizard *''Riama yumborum'' ''Nota bene'': A Binomial nomenclature, binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Riama''. References Further reading *John Edward Gray, Gray JE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riama Striata
''Riama striata'', the striped lightbulb lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. It is endemic to Colombia. References Riama Reptiles of Colombia Endemic fauna of Colombia Reptiles described in 1863 Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters {{gymnophthalmidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Gabriel Andersson
Lars Gabriel Andersson (22 February 1868 – 13 February 1951) was a Swedish schoolteacher and herpetologist. He studied at Uppsala University and earned his PhD in 1909. During his long career he taught classes at several schools in and near Stockholm. In 1894–95 and from 1897 to 1902 he worked as an assistant in the vertebrate department at the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm. Taxa With zoologist Einar Lönnberg he described the following herpetological species: * ''Aipysurus tenuis'', 1913 * '' Atractaspis engdahli'', 1913 * ''Eulamprus brachyosoma'', 1915. * '' Eulamprus tympanum'', 1915 * '' Gastrotheca microdiscus'', (Andersson in Lönnberg and Andersson, 1910). * ''Glaphyromorphus mjobergi'', 1915 * ''Strophurus taeniatus'', 1913. On his own, he described: * '' Didynamipus sjostedti'', 1903 Works by Andersson that have been published in English * "Catalogue of Linnean type-specimens of snakes in the Royal Museum in Stockholm", 1899. * "Catalogue of Linnean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riama Unicolor
''Riama unicolor'', the drab lightbulb lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. It is endemic to Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain .... References Riama Reptiles of Ecuador Endemic fauna of Ecuador Reptiles described in 1858 Taxa named by John Edward Gray {{gymnophthalmidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German natural history, naturalist and explorer. He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he then described in ''Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt'' (1852–1882). The work was comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, river fish, insects and botany. He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a few years, he greatly increased ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riama Stigmatoral
''Riama stigmatoral'' is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. It is endemic to Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q5259279 Riama Reptiles of Ecuador Endemic fauna of Ecuador Reptiles described in 1996 Taxa named by David A. Kizirian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (14 March 184430 January 1881) was a British poet and herpetologist. Of Irish descent, he was born in London. He is most remembered for his poem " Ode", from his 1874 collection ''Music and Moonlight'', which begins with the words "We are the music makers, / And we are the dreamers of dreams", and which has been set to music by several composers including Edward Elgar (as '' The Music Makers)'', Zoltán Kodály, Alfred Reed and, more recently, 808 State ( ex:el: nephatiti) and Aphex Twin ('' Selected Ambient Works 85-92''). Early life and herpetology In June 1861, at age 17, Arthur O'Shaughnessy received the post of transcriber in the library of the British Museum, reportedly through the influence of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. According to Sir Edmund Gosse, O'Shaughnessy was one of Bulwer Lytton's many children born out of wedlock. Two years later, he became a herpetologist in the museum's zoological department. From 1874 to his prematu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riama Simotera
''Riama simotera'', O'Shaughnessy's lightbulb lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. It is endemic to Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q3430062 Riama Reptiles of Ecuador Endemic fauna of Ecuador Reptiles described in 1879 Taxa named by Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riama Raneyi
''Riama raneyi'' is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The species is endemic to Ecuador. Etymology The specific name, ''raneyi'', is in honor of Richard H. Raney, mayor of Lawrence, Kansas (1967–1968), for his support of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Riama raneyi'', p. 217). Geographic range ''R. raneyi'' is found in Napo Province, Ecuador, at altitudes of . Reproduction ''R. raneyi'' is oviparous Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zygotes outside the body (i.e., by laying or spawning) in metabolically independent incubation organs known as eggs, which nurture the embryo into moving offsprings kno .... References Further reading * Doan TM, Castoe TA (2005). "Phylogenetic taxonomy of the Cercosaurini (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riama Orcesi
''Riama orcesi'' is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The species is endemic to Ecuador. Etymology The specific name, ''orcesi'', is in honor of Ecuadorian herpetologist Gustavo Orcés.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Riama orcesi'', p. 195). Geographic range ''R. orcesi'' is found in northeastern Ecuador at altitudes of . Reproduction ''R. orcesi'' is oviparous Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zygotes outside the body (i.e., by laying or spawning) in metabolically independent incubation organs known as eggs, which nurture the embryo into moving offsprings kno .... References Further reading * Doan TM, Castoe TA (2005). "Phylogenetic taxonomy of the Cercosaurini (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), with new genera for species of ''Neusticurus'' and ''Proctoporus'' ". ''Zoological Journal o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Boulenger was also an active botanist during the last 30 years of his life, especially in the study of roses. Life Boulenger was born in Brussels, Belgium, the only son of Gustave Boulenger, a Belgian public notary, and Juliette Piérart, from Valenciennes. He graduated in 1876 from the Free University of Brussels (1834–1969), Free University of Brussels with a degree in natural sciences, and worked for a while at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, as an assistant naturalist studying amphibians, reptiles, and fishes. He also made frequent visits during this time to the ''National Museum of Natural History (France), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle'' in Paris and the Natural History Museum, London, British Museum in London. Boulenger develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riama Meleagris
''Riama meleagris'', the brown lightbulb lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. It is endemic to Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q5264780 Riama Reptiles of Ecuador Endemic fauna of Ecuador Reptiles described in 1885 Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riama Labionis
''Riama labionis'' is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. It is endemic to Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q5313574 Riama Reptiles of Ecuador Endemic fauna of Ecuador Reptiles described in 1996 Taxa named by David A. Kizirian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
