Panaspis seydeli

Seydel's snake-eyed skink (Panaspis seydeli) is a species of lidless skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to Central Africa and Southern Africa.

Panaspis seydeli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Panaspis
Species:
P. seydeli
Binomial name
Panaspis seydeli
(de Witte, 1933)
Synonyms[1]
  • Ablepharus seydeli
    de Witte, 1933
  • Ablepharus moeruensis
    de Witte, 1933
  • Ablepharus smithii
    de Witte, 1936
  • Afroablepharus seydeli
    — Greer, 1974
  • Panaspis seydeli
    — Broadley & Cotterill, 2004

Etymology

The specific name, seydeli, is in honor of Belgian lepidopterist Charles Henri Victor Seydel (1873–1960).[2]

Geographic range

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

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References
  1. Panaspis seydeli at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 2018-02-21.
  2. 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).

Further reading
  • de Witte G-F (1933). "Reptiles récoltés au Congo Belge par le Dr. H. Schouteden et par M. G.-F. de Witte". Annales du Musée royal du Congo Belge, Première Série 3: 53–100. (Ablepharus seydeli, new species, p. 78). (in French).
  • Greer AE (1974). "The genetic relationships of the Scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives". Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 22 (31): 1–67. (Afroablepharus seydeli, new combination).
  • Medina MF, Bauer AM, Branch WR, Schmitz A, Conradie W, Nagy ZT, Hibbitts TJ, Ernst R, Portik DM, Nielsen SV, Colston TJ, Kusamba C, Behangana M, Rödel M-O, Greenbaum E (2016). "Molecular phylogeny of Panaspis and Afroablepharus skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) in the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 100: 409–423. (Panaspis seydeli).


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