''Bachia alleni'' 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 the southern
Caribbean
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.
Etymology
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specific name Specific name may refer to:
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, ''alleni'', is in honor of American Zoologist
Glover Morrill Allen
Glover Morrill Allen (February 8, 1879 – February 14, 1942) was an American zoologist.
Born in Walpole, New Hampshire, the son of Reverend Nathaniel Glover Allen and Harriet Ann (Schouler) Allen, he studied at Harvard University. While still a ...
.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, xiii + 296 pp. . (''Bachia heteropa alleni'', p. 5; ''Bachia cuvieri'', p. 63).]
The specific name, ''cuvieri'' (of the synonym, ''Bachia cuvieri)'', is in honor of French naturalist
Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (; ), was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuv ...
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Geographic range
''B. alleni'' is found in Grenada
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, the Grenadines
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, and Tobago
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.
Reproduction
''B. alleni'' is oviparous
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References
Further reading
* Barbour T (1914). "A Contribution to the Zoögeography of the West Indies, with Especial Reference to Amphibians and Reptiles". ''Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College'' 44 (2): 205–359 + Plate. (''Scolecosaurus alleni'', new species, pp. 315–316 + Plate, figures 11–15).
* Murphy JC, Salvi D, Santos JL, Braswell AL, Charles SP, Borzée A, Jowers MJ (2019). "The reduced limbed lizards of the genus ''Bachia'' (Reptilia, Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae); biogeography, cryptic diversity, and morphological convergence in the eastern Caribbean". ''Organisms Diversity & Evolution'' 19: 321–340. (''Bachia alleni)''.
* Schwartz A, Thomas R
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(1975). ''A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles''. Carnegie Museum of Natural History
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Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (''Bachia heteropus alleni'', p. 109).
Bachia
Reptiles described in 1914
Taxa named by Thomas Barbour
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