Loveridgea

Loveridgea is a genus in the family Amphisbaenidae, commonly known as worm lizards. Two species are placed in this genus.[1]

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

Etymology

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

The specific name, ionidesii, is in honor of British game warden Constantine John Philip Ionides (1901–1968), who was known as the "Snake Man of British East Africa".[3]

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)". Herpetologica 7 (3): 133-123. (Loveridgea, new genus).
3. 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. (Loveridgea ionidesii, p. 130).

Further reading

• Battersby JC (1950). "A new amphisbaenid lizard from Tanganyika territory and notes on the rare snake Chilorhinophis ". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Twelfth Series 3: 413-417. (Amphisbaena ionidesii, new species).
• Gans C (2005). "Checklist and Bibliography of the Amphisbaenia of the World". Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. (289): 1-130.
• Tornier G (1899). "Drei Reptilien aus Afrika ". Zoologischer Anzeiger 22 (588): 258-261. (Amphisbaena phylofiniens, new species, pp. 260–261). (in German).