Loveridgea

Loveridgea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Clade:	Amphisbaenia
Family:	Amphisbaenidae
Genus:	Loveridgea Vanzolini, 1951
Species
Two, see text.

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]

Etymology

The generic name, Loveridgea, is in honor of British herpetologist Arthur Loveridge. ^[2]

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

1. Loveridgea at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 29 July 2018.
2. Vanzolini PE (1951). "A Systematic Arrangement of the Family Amphisbaenidae (Sauria)". Herpetologica7 (3): 133-123. (Loveridgea, new genus).

Further reading

• Battersby JC (1950). "A new amphisbaenid lizard from Tanganyika territory and notes on the rare snake Chilorhinophis ". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Twelfth Series3: 413-417. (Amphisbaena ionidesii, new species).
• Gans C (2005). "Checklist and Bibliography of the Amphisbaenia of the World". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (289): 1-130.
• Tornier G (1899). "Drei Reptilien aus Afrika ". Zoologischer Anzeiger22 (588): 258-261. (Amphisbaena phylofiniens, new species, pp. 260–261). (in German).