''Tracheloptychus'' is a small
genus of
lizards
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia althou ...
in the
family Gerrhosauridae
The Gerrhosauridae are a family of lizards native to Africa and Madagascar.
Habitat
Also known as plated lizards, species in the family Gerrhosauridae live in a range of habitats, from rocky crevices to sand dunes.
Description
Their form i ...
. The genus is
endemic to
Madagascar.
[Raselimanana A, Vences M (2011)]
''Tracheloptychus madagascariensis''.
In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2.[Rakotondravony H, Raselimanana A, Ramanamanjato J-B, Raxworthy CJ (2011)]
''Tracheloptychus petersi''.
In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2.
Species
There are two species which are recognized as being valid.
[''Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary.'']
National Academy of Sciences. National Academies Press. 2005. pg. 209.
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Tracheloptychus madagascariensis
''Tracheloptychus madagascariensis'', commonly known as the Madagascar keeled cordylid, is a species of lizard in the family Gerrhosauridae.
The species is found in Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of ...
'' – Malagasy keeled plated lizard, Madagascar girdled lizard
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Tracheloptychus petersi
''Tracheloptychus petersi'', commonly known as Peters's keeled cordylid, is a species of lizard in the family Gerrhosauridae.
The species is found in Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( ...
'' – Peters' keeled plated lizard
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 German
herpetologist Wilhelm Peters, who is the author of this genus.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Tracheloptychus petersi'', pp. 204-205).]
References
Further reading
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Boulenger GA (1887). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Gerrhosauridæ ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Genus ''Tracheloptychus'', p. 129; species ''T. madagascariensis'', p. 129; species "''T. petersii''
ic, p. 130).
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Grandidier A (1869). "''Descriptions de quelques animaux nouveaux découverts, pendant l'année 1869, sur la côte ouest de Madagascar'' ". ''Revue et Magazine de Zoologie pure et appliquée (Paris)'', Series 2, 21: 337-342. (''Tracheloptychus petersi'', new species, pp. 339–340). (in French).
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Peters (1854). "''Diagnosen neuer Batrachier, welche zusammen mit der früher (24. Juli und 17. August) gegebenen Übersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden'' ". ''Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin'' 1854: 614-628. (''Tracheloptychus'', new genus, p. 617; ''T. madagascariensis'', new species, pp. 617–618). (in German and Latin).
Tracheloptychus
Reptiles of Madagascar
Lizard genera
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
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