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Takydromus Tachydromoides
''Takydromus tachydromoides'', the Japanese grass lizard, is a wall lizard species of the genus ''Takydromus''. It is found in Japan. Its Japanese name is 'kanahebi' (カナヘビ). 'Hebi' means 'snake' in Japanese language, Japanese, although this lizard is not a snake. There are three species of lizards found on the four main islands of Japan. The other two are the Japanese gekko (also known as Schlegel's Japanese gekko, ''Gekko japonicus'' ,or 'yamori' (ヤモリ) in Japanese) and the Okada's Five-lined Skink (''Eumeces latiscutatus'', also ''Plestiodon latiscutatus''; the five lines on its back are only visible in its juvenile form).Kevin Short, Nature in Tokyo, Kodansha, 2000 Live food *House cricket *Waxworm *Rough woodlouse References Takydromus Reptiles of Japan Reptiles described in 1838 Taxa named by Hermann Schlegel {{Lacertidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Schlegel
Hermann Schlegel (10 June 1804 – 17 January 1884) was a German ornithologist, herpetologist and ichthyologist. Early life and education Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history. The discovery, by chance, of a buzzard's nest led him to the study of birds, and a meeting with Christian Ludwig Brehm. Schlegel started to work for his father, but soon tired of it. He travelled to Vienna in 1824, where, at the university, he attended the lectures of Leopold Fitzinger and Johann Jacob Heckel. A letter of introduction from Brehm to Joseph Natterer gained him a position at the Naturhistorisches Museum. Ornithological career One year after his arrival, the director of this natural history museum, Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers, recommended him to Coenraad Jacob Temminck, director of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, natural history museum of Leiden, who was seeking an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takydromus
''Takydromus'' is a genus of lizards, commonly called grass lizards or oriental racers. Species of the genus ''Takydromus'' are Endemism, endemic to a large part of Asia. Members of this genus are noticeable because of their slender appearance and their agile movements. The word ''takydromus'' derives from Greek language, Greek ταχυδρόμος (''takhudromos''), "fast-running", from ταχύς (''takhus''), "swift" + δρόμος (''dromos''), "course, race". Description Members of the genus ''Takydromus'' are extremely slender in appearance. The tail is about 2 to 5 times as long as the snout-vent length. The basic colour is normally brown, often with lateral stripes and dark spots. The dorsal scales are keeled and large. These keels form continuous longitudinal rows. The toes contain lamellae. The collar may be reduced or completely absent. Distribution and habitat The lizard genus ''Takydromus'' is found in Japan, in the Amur Oblast, Amur region of Russia, and througho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Language
is the principal language of the Japonic languages, Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language. There have been many Classification of the Japonic languages, attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as Ainu languages, Ainu, Austronesian languages, Austronesian, Koreanic languages, Koreanic, and the now discredited Altaic languages, Altaic, but none of these proposals have gained any widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), extensive waves of Sino-Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake
Snakes are elongated limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (). Cladistically squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales much like other members of the group. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors and relatives, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads ( cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most only have one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have independently evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs at least twenty-five times via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, althoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gekko
''Gekko'' is a genus of Southeast Asian geckos, Common name, commonly known as true geckos or calling geckos, in the Family (biology), family Gekkonidae. Although species such as ''Gekko gecko'' (tokay gecko) are very widespread and common, some species in the same genus have a very small range and are considered rare or endangered. Species The following species are recognized as being valid. *''Gekko shiva'' *''Gekko alpinus'' ''Nota bene'': A Binomial nomenclature, binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Gekko''. References Further reading *Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Laurenti JN (1768). ''Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austriacorum.'' Vienna: "Joan. Thom. Nob. de Trattnern". 214 pp. + Plates I–V. (''Gekko'', new genus, pp. 43–44). (in Latin). External links * * * ''Gekko''at Index to Organism Names ''Nomenclat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gekko Japonicus
Schlegel's Japanese gecko (''Gekko japonicus''), also known as ''yamori'' in Japanese, is a species of gecko. Taxonomy ''G. japonicus'' was classified by Hermann Schlegel in 1836. The specific epithet, ''japonicus'', is Modern Latin for Japan. Distribution ''Gekko japonicus'' occurs across the main islands of Japan, ranging from northern Honshu in the north and east to Kyushu in the south and west. It can also be found in eastern China and in South Korea. Ecology Like other species of gecko, individuals of ''G. japonicus'' primarily eat insects. The species is capable of autotomy Autotomy (from the Greek ''auto-'', "self-" and ''tome'', "severing", αὐτοτομία) or 'self-amputation', is the behaviour whereby an animal sheds or discards an appendage, usually as a self-defense mechanism to elude a predator's grasp ..., and will separate its tail from its body to escape predators. While this process avoids bleeding, as blood vessels at the base of the tail close to pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okada's Five-lined Skink
The Okada's five-lined skink or Far Eastern skink (''Plestiodon latiscutatus'', Jap. オカダトカゲ ''Okada-Tokage'') is a species of lizard which is endemic to Japan. Taxonomy The species was first described by the American herpetologist Edward Hallowell in 1861. There are no recognized subspecies. During the 20th century it was placed in the genus ''Eumeces'' which now contains African and Middle-Eastern skinks. It was long named ''Eumeces okadae'' but changed to ''latiscutatus'' according to the rules of nomenclature and priority. Description The total length is between 15 and 24 cm and the snout-vent length 60 to 96 mm.Richard C. Goris, Norio Maeda: ''Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Japan'', Krieger Publishing Company, 2004, ISBN 1575240858 (p. 165–167) Similar species are '' P. japonicus'' and '' P. finitimus''. The color of ''P. latiscutatus'' is more greenish than for ''P. japonicus''. Juveniles have a blue tail which is also more greenish th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eumeces
The genus ''Eumeces'' (family (biology), family Scincidae) comprises four African to Middle-Eastern skink species. Systematics Recently two taxonomic revisions have been made regarding the 19th century genus ''Eumeces''. They both resulted in similar results; the genus is paraphyletic and must be "sliced up" into several different genus, genera. Griffith ''et al.'' (2000) proposed that the type species for ''Eumeces'', ''E. pavimentatus'', which is considered by many to be a subspecies of ''Eumeces schneiderii'', should be changed to ''Lacerta fasciata'', so that the genus name ''Eumeces'' would stay with the most species-rich clade. However, this petition has not been verified by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Schimtz ''et al.'' argued that Griffith ''et al.'' violated the Code and rejected the proposal on good grounds. Thus only the African species of the ''Eumeces schneiderii'' group belong to the genus ''Eumeces''. Within ''Eumeces'' the following sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takydromus TachydromoidesFight
''Takydromus'' is a genus of lizards, commonly called grass lizards or oriental racers. Species of the genus ''Takydromus'' are endemic to a large part of Asia. Members of this genus are noticeable because of their slender appearance and their agile movements. The word ''takydromus'' derives from Greek ταχυδρόμος (''takhudromos''), "fast-running", from ταχύς (''takhus''), "swift" + δρόμος (''dromos''), "course, race". Description Members of the genus ''Takydromus'' are extremely slender in appearance. The tail is about 2 to 5 times as long as the snout-vent length. The basic colour is normally brown, often with lateral stripes and dark spots. The dorsal scales are keeled and large. These keels form continuous longitudinal rows. The toes contain lamellae. The collar may be reduced or completely absent. Distribution and habitat The lizard genus ''Takydromus'' is found in Japan, in the Amur region of Russia, and throughout entire eastern Asia to Indonesia. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Grass Lizard (Takydromus Tachydromoides)
''Takydromus tachydromoides'', the Japanese grass lizard, is a wall lizard species of the genus ''Takydromus''. It is found in Japan. Its Japanese name is 'kanahebi' (カナヘビ). 'Hebi' means 'snake' in Japanese, although this lizard is not a snake. There are three species of lizards found on the four main islands of Japan. The other two are the Japanese gekko (also known as Schlegel's Japanese gekko, ''Gekko japonicus'' ,or 'yamori' (ヤモリ) in Japanese) and the Okada's Five-lined Skink (''Eumeces latiscutatus'', also ''Plestiodon latiscutatus''; the five lines on its back are only visible in its juvenile form).Kevin Short, Nature in Tokyo, Kodansha, 2000 Live food *House cricket *Waxworm Waxworms are the caterpillar larvae of wax moths, which belong to the family (biology), family Pyralidae (snout moths). Two closely related species are commercially bred – the lesser wax moth (''Achroia grisella'') and the Galleria mell ... * Rough woodlouse References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Cricket
''Acheta domesticus'', commonly called the house cricket, is a species of cricket most likely native to Southwestern Asia, but between 1950 and 2000 it became the standard feeder insect for the pet and research industries and spread worldwide. They can be kept as pets themselves, as this has been the case in China and Japan. Description The house cricket is typically gray or brownish in color, growing to in length. Males and females look similar, but females will have a brown-black, needle-like ovipositor extending from the center rear, approximately the same length as the cerci, the paired appendages towards the rear-most segment of the cricket. On males, the cerci are more prominent. Diet The house cricket is an omnivore that eats a range of plant and animal matter. Crickets in the wild consume flowers, leaves, fruits, grasses and other insects (including dead members of their own species). Crickets in captivity will accept fruits (e.g. apples, oranges, bananas), veg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
