''Cercosaura parkeri'', known
commonly as Parker's many-fingered teiid, 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
South America
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.
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 ...
, ''parkeri'', is in honor of English herpetologist
Hampton Wildman Parker
Hampton Wildman Parker, CBE (5 July 1897 – 2 September 1968) was an English zoologist.
Parker graduated from Cambridge in 1923 with degrees in botany, zoology, and chemistry. Within the same year, he joined the staff of the British Museum (Natu ...
.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Cercosaura parkeri'', p. 200).]
Geographic range
''C. parkeri'' is found in
Argentina
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,
Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...
,
Brazil
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, and
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
.
[. www.reptile-database.org.]
Reproduction
''C. parkeri'' 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
*Bernarde, Paulo Sérgio; Mota da Silva, Ageane; Recoder, Renato (2016). "Predation on the lizard ''Pantodactylus parkeri'' Ruibal, 1952 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) by ''Guira guira'' (Aves, Cuculidae) in the Pantanal at Pocone, Western Brazil". ''Herpetology Notes'' 9: 279–281.
*Doan, Tiffany M. (2003). "A new phylogenetic classification for the gymnophthalmid genera ''Cercosaura'', ''Pantodactylus'' and ''Prionodactylus'' (Reptilia: Squamata)". ''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'' 137 (1): 101–115. (''Cercosaura parkeri'', new combination).
*Ruibal, Rodolfo (1952). "Revisionary Studies of Some South American Teiidae". ''Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College'' 106 (11): 475–529. (''Pantodactylus schreibersii parkeri'', new subspecies, pp. 518–520).
* Tedesco ME, Cei JM (1999). "Remarks on the Taxonomic status of the Argentine subspecies of ''Pantodactylus schreibersii'' ( Wiegmann, 1834) (Gymnophthalmidae, Scleroglossa, Squamata)". ''Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino'' 16: 309–320. (''Pantodactylus parkeri'', new status).
Cercosaura
Reptiles of Argentina
Reptiles of Bolivia
Spectacled lizards of Brazil
Reptiles of Peru
Reptiles described in 1952
Taxa named by Rodolfo Ruibal
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