''Bachia barbouri'', also known commonly as Barbour's bachia, is a

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in the

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. The species is

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Etymology

The

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, ''barbouri'', is in honor of American herpetologist

Thomas Barbour Thomas Barbour (August 19, 1884 – January 8, 1946) was an American herpetologist. He was the first president of the Dexter School in 1926. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) founded in 1 ...

Geographic range

''B. barbouri'' is found in northwestern Peru, in the valleys of the Río Chinchipe, the

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, and the Río Utcubamba.

Habitat

The preferred natural

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of ''B. barbouri'' is

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Description

The

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of ''B. barbouri'' has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of . The legs are much reduced. The front leg is short, with only two digits. The back leg is either a small tubercle or is absent.Burt CE, Burt MD (1931).

Reproduction

''B. barbouri'' 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 ...

. Each egg measures about .

Etymology

Geographic range

Habitat

Description

Reproduction

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