Tetradactylus
Template:Short description Template:Redirect Template:Italic title Template:Use dmy dates Template:Automatic taxobox Tetradactylus is a genus of lizards in the family Gerrhosauridae. The genus is endemic to Africa.
SpeciesEdit
The genus Tetradactylus contains the following species which are recognized as being valid.<ref>Template:EMBL genus www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
- Tetradactylus africanus Template:Small – African long-tailed seps
- Tetradactylus breyeri Template:Small – Breyer's long-tailed seps, vulnerable (VU)
- Tetradactylus eastwoodae Template:Small – Eastwood's long-tailed seps, extinct (EX)
- Tetradactylus ellenbergeri Template:Small – Ellenberger's long-tailed seps
- Tetradactylus fitzsimonsi Template:Small – Fitzsimons's long-tailed seps
- Tetradactylus seps Template:Small – short-legged seps
- Tetradactylus tetradactylus Template:Small – long-toed seps
- Tetradactylus udzungwensis Template:Small – Udzungwa long-tailed seps
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally named in a genus other than Tetradactylus.
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- Berger-Dell'Mour HAE (1983). "Der Übergang von Echse zu Schleiche in der Gattung Tetradactylus, Merrem [=The Transition from Lizard to Legless Lizard in the Genus Tetradactylus, Merrem]". Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Anatomie und Ontogenie der Tiere 110: 1–152. (in German).
- Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Gerrhosauridæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Genus Tetradactylus, p. 124).
- Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. Template:ISBN. (Genus Tetradactylus, pp. 181–182).
- Merrem B (1820). Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien: Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum. Marburg: J.C. Krieger. xv + 191 pp. + one plate. (Tetradactylus, new genus, p. 75). (in German and Latin).