Latastia longicaudata

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Latastia longicaudata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Genus: Latastia
Species:
L. longicaudata
Binomial name
Latastia longicaudata
(Reuss, 1834)

Latastia longicaudata, also known commonly as the common long-tailed lizard and the southern long-tailed lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is native to northern sub-Saharan Africa. There are four recognized subspecies. [2]

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Geographic range

L. longicaudata is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Yemen. [2]

Subspecies

The following four subspecies, including the nominotypical subspecies, are recognized as being valid. [2]

Nota bene : A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Latastia.

Etymology

The subspecific names, lanzai and revoili, are in honor of Italian herpetologist Benedetto Lanza [3] and French naturalist Georges Révoil, [4] respectively.

Reproduction

L. longicaudata is oviparous. [2]

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Benedetto Lanza was an Italian herpetologist and chiropterologist. He published over 500 works, with the first one being published in 1946. He described 68 new taxa. He was Professor of Biology and Director of the Natural History Museum at the Università degli Studi di Firenze.

References

  1. Howell K, Msuya CA, Ngalason W, Niagate B, Wagner P, Wilms T, Al Jumaily MM, Sindaco R, Baha El Din S (2021). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T197494A2490375.en. Accessed on 30 November 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Latastia longicaudata at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 4 May 2019.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Latastia lanzai, p. 151).
  4. Vaillant L (1882). "Reptiles et Batraciens ". 25 pp. + Plates I–III. (Eremias revoili, new species, pp. 20–23 + Plate III, figures 2, 2a, 2b). (in French and Latin). In: Révoil G (1882). Faune et Flore des Pays Çomalis (Afrique Oriental)". Paris: Challamel Ainé. 528 pp.

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