Panaspis

Panaspis
Panaspis wahlbergii, Wahlberg's snake-eyed skink, Durban, South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Eugongylinae
Genus:	Panaspis Cope, 1868
Species
21 sp., see text
Synonyms
Afroablepharus

Panaspis is a genus of skinks, commonly called lidless skinks or snake-eyed skinks, endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Species

The following 22 species, listed alphabetically by specific name, are recognized as being valid: ^[1]

• Panaspis africana (Gray, 1845) – Guinea lidless skink
• Panaspis annettesabinae Colston, Pyron, & Bauer, 2020 – Sabin's snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis annobonensis (Fuhn, 1972) – Annobón lidless skink
• Panaspis breviceps (W. Peters, 1873) – Peters's lidless skink, short-headed snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis burgeoni (de Witte, 1933)
• Panaspis cabindae (Bocage, 1866) – Cabinda lidless skink, cabinda snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis duruarum (Monard, 1949)
• Panaspis ericae
• Panaspis helleri (Loveridge, 1932)
• Panaspis maculicollis (Jacobsen & Broadley, 2000) – speckle-lipped snake-eyed skink, spotted-neck snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis massaiensis (Angel, 1924) – Maasai snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis megalurus (Nieden, 1913) – blue-tailed snake-eyed skink, Nieden's dwarf skink ^[2]
• Panaspis mocamedensis Ceríaco, Heinicke, Parker, Marques, & Bauer, 2020 – Moçamedes snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis namibiana Ceríaco, Branch & Bauer, 2018 – Namibian snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis seydeli (de Witte, 1933) – Seydel's snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis tancredii (Boulenger, 1909) – Ethiopian snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis thomensis Ceríaco, Soares, Marques, Bastos-Silveira, Scheinberg, Harris, Brehm & Jesus, 2018 – São Tomé leaf-litter skink
• Panaspis togoensis (F. Werner, 1902) – Togo lidless skink
• Panaspis tristaoi (Monard, 1940) – Nimba snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis tsavoensis Kilunda, Conradie, Wasonga, Jin, Peng, Murphy, Malonza, & Che, 2019 – Tsavo snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis wahlbergii (A. Smith, 1849) – Angolan snake-eyed skink, savannah lidless skink, Wahlberg's snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis wilsoni (F. Werner, 1919) – Wilson's snake-eyed skink

Nota bene : A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Panaspis.

References

1. Panaspis at The Reptile Database.
2. 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. (Panaspis megalurus, p. 190).

Further reading

• Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books Publishing. 399 pp. ISBN   0-88359-042-5. (Genus Panaspis, p. 159).
• Cope ED (1868). "Observations on REPTILES of the Old World. Art. II". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia20: 316–323. (Panaspis, new genus, pp. 317–318).