Panaspis seydeli

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Panaspis seydeli
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Panaspis
Species:
P. seydeli
Binomial name
Panaspis seydeli
(de Witte, 1933)
Synonyms [2]
  • Ablepharus seydeli
    de Witte, 1933
  • Ablepharus moeruensis
    de Witte, 1933
  • Ablepharus smithii
    de Witte, 1936
  • Afroablepharus seydeli
    Greer, 1974
  • Panaspis seydeli
    Broadley & Cotterill, 2004

Panaspis seydeli, also known as the Seydel's snake-eyed skink, is a species of lidless skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is known from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia. [1] [2]

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Etymology

The specific name, seydeli, is in honor of Belgian lepidopterist Charles Henri Victor Seydel (1873–1960). [3]

Geographic range

P. seydeli is found in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Zambia. [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Bowles, P. (2021). "Panaspis seydeli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021: e.T113828592A113828603. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T113828592A113828603.en . Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 Panaspis seydeli at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 3 April 2022.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Afroablepharus seydeli, p. 241).

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