Pristidactylus alvaroi
Pristidactylus alvaroi is a species of lizard in the family Leiosauridae. The species is endemic to the Chilean Matorral ecoregion within Chile.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Leiosauridae |
| Genus: | Pristidactylus |
| Species: | P. alvaroi |
| Binomial name | |
| Pristidactylus alvaroi (Donoso-Barros, 1975) | |
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Etymology
The specific name, alvaroi, is in honor of Álvaro Donoso-Barros, the son of herpetologist Roberto Donoso-Barros, who first described the species in 1975.[3]
References
- Avilés, R.; Espejo, P.; Garin, C.; Nunez, J.; Ortiz, J.C.; Sallabery, N.; Victoriano, P. & Vidal, M. (2017). "Pristidactylus alvaroi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2017: e.T18170A69941266. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T18170A69941266.en. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
- "Pristidactylus alvaroi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- 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. (Pristidactylus alvaroi, p. 7).
Sources
- Hogan, C. Michael, & World Wildlife Fund (2013). Chilean Matorral. Ed. Mark McGinley. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC
Further reading
- Donoso-Barros R (1975). "Neuvos reptiles y anfibios de Chile ". Boletin de la Sociedad de Biologia de Concepción 48: 217–229. (Cupriguanus alvaroi, new species, pp. 221–224, Figures 3-5). (in Spanish, with an abstract in English).
- Etheridge R, Williams EE (1985). "Notes on Pristidactylus (Squamata: Iguanidae)". Breviora (483): 1-18. (Pristidactylus alvaroi, new combination, p. 13).
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