Panaspis seydeli

Species of lizard

Panaspis seydeli
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b c 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).

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, Maria F.; Bauer, Aaron M. [in French]; Branch, William R.; Schmitz, Andreas [in French]; Conradie, Werner; Nagy, Zoltán T.; Hibbitts, Toby J.; Ernst, Raffael; Portik, Daniel M.; Nielsen, Stuart V.; Colston, Timothy J.; Kusamba, Chifundera; Behangana, Mathias; Rödel, Mark-Oliver [in French]; Greenbaum, Eli (2016). "Molecular phylogeny of Panaspis and Afroablepharus skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) in the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 100: 409–423. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.026. PMC 4898058. PMID 27118179. (Panaspis seydeli).
Taxon identifiers
Panaspis seydeli
  • Wikidata: Q111472687
  • Wikispecies: Panaspis seydeli
  • CoL: 8H6KC
  • GBIF: 2462691
  • IUCN: 113828592
  • RD: seydeli
Afroablepharus seydeli
  • Wikidata: Q2826244
  • ADW: Afroablepharus_seydeli
  • EoL: 816001
  • GBIF: 2462689
  • iNaturalist: 37200
  • IRMNG: 10779801
  • Observation.org: 96358
  • uBio: 8064347


  • v
  • t
  • e