Loveridgea
Loveridgea is a genus of amphisbaenians in the family Amphisbaenidae. Species in the genus are commonly known as worm lizards, even though they are not lizards. Two species are placed in this genus.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Amphisbaenidae |
| Genus: | Loveridgea Vanzolini, 1951 |
| Species | |
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Two, see text. | |
Etymology
The generic name, Loveridgea, is in honor of British herpetologist Arthur Loveridge.[2]
The specific name, ionidesii, is in honor of British game warden Constantine John Philip Ionides (1901–1968), who was known as the "Snake Man of British East Africa".[3]
Species
- Loveridgea ionidesii (Battersby, 1950) - Liwale round-snouted worm lizard
- Loveridgea phylofiniens (Tornier, 1899) - Udjiji worm lizard
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Loveridgea.
References
- Loveridgea at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 July 2018.
- Vanzolini PE (1951). "A Systematic Arrangement of the Family Amphisbaenidae (Sauria)". Herpetologica 7 (3): 133-123. (Loveridgea, new genus).
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Loveridgea ionidesii, p. 130).
Further reading
Wikispecies has information related to Loveridgea.
- Battersby JC (1950). "A new amphisbaenid lizard from Tanganyika territory and notes on the rare snake Chilorhinophis ". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Twelfth Series 3: 413-417. (Amphisbaena ionidesii, new species).
- Gans C (2005). "Checklist and Bibliography of the Amphisbaenia of the World". Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. (289): 1-130.
- Tornier G (1899). "Drei Reptilien aus Afrika ". Zoologischer Anzeiger 22 (588): 258-261. (Amphisbaena phylofiniens, new species, pp. 260–261). (in German).
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