''Anadia petersi'', known
commonly as Peters' anadia, is a
species
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of
lizard
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in the
family
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Gymnophthalmidae
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. The species is
endemic
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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 ...
.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''petersi'', is in honor of American herpetologist
James A. Peters
James Arthur Peters (July 13, 1922 – December 18, 1972) was an American herpetologist and zoogeographer.
He was born in Durant, Iowa, and raised in Greenup, Illinois. He studied at the University of Michigan, where he obtained his Ph.D. in ...
.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Anadia petersi'', p. 204).]
Geographic range
''A. petersi'' is found in
Loja Province
Loja Province () is one of 24 Provinces of Ecuador, provinces in Ecuador and shares its southern border on the west with El Oro Province, on the north with El Azuay, and on the east with Zamora-Chinchipe Province, Zamora-Chinchipe. Founded on i ...
, Ecuador.
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Habitat
The preferred habitat
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of ''A. petersi'' is forest
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at an altitude of .[
]
Reproduction
''A. petersi'' 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
* Betancourt R, Reyes-Puig C, Lobos SE, Yánez-Muñoz MH, Torres-Carvajal O (2018). "''Sistemática de los saurios ''Anadia'' Gray
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, 1845 (Sauria: Gymnophthalmidae) de Ecuador: límite de especies, distribución geográfica y descripción de una especie nueva''". ''Neotropical Biodiversity'' 4 (1): 83–102. (in Spanish, with an abstract in English).
* Oftedal OT (1974). "A revision of the genus ''Anadia'' (Sauria, Teiidae)". ''Arquivos de Zoologia, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo'' 25 (4): 203–265. (''Anadia petersi'', new species, pp. 226–229, Figures 10A, 10B, 11, 12, 13A).
* Peters JA (1959). "''Notas miscelaneas sobre saurios del Ecuador'' ". ''Ciencia y Naturaleza'' 2: 118–124. (in Spanish).
Anadia (genus)
Reptiles of Ecuador
Endemic fauna of Ecuador
Reptiles described in 1974
Taxa named by Olav T. Oftedal
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