''Andinosaura petrorum'' 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 ...
, ''petrorum'' (masculine genitive plural), is in honor of three men named Peters or Peter: German zoologist
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, ...
, American herpetologist
James A. Peters, and American herpetologist
Peter D. Spoecker.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Riama petrorum'', p. 204).]
Habitat
The natural habitat
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of ''A. petrorum'' is forest
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.[
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Reproduction
''A. petrorum'' 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 ...
.[
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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 of the Linnean Society'' 143: 405–416. (''Riama petrorum'', new combination).
*Kizirian, David A. (1996). "A Review of Ecuadorian ''Proctoporus'' (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) with Descriptions of Nine New Species". ''Herpetological Monographs'' 10: 85–155. (''Proctoporus petrorum'', new species).
* Sánchez-Pacheco SJ, Torres-Carvajal O, Aguirre-Peñafiel V, Sales Nunes PM, Verrastro L, Rivas GA, Rodrigues MT, Grant T, Murphy RW (2017). "Phylogeny of ''Riama'' (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), impact of phenotypic evidence on molecular datasets, and the origin of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta endemic fauna". ''Cladistics'' 34 (3): 260–291. (''Andinosaura petrorum'', new combination).
Andinosaura
Reptiles of Ecuador
Endemic fauna of Ecuador
Reptiles described in 1996
Taxa named by David A. Kizirian
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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