Eastwood's long-tailed seps
Eastwood's longtailed seps | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Gerrhosauridae |
Genus: | Tetradactylus |
Species: | †T. eastwoodae
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Binomial name | |
†Tetradactylus eastwoodae |
Eastwood's longtailed seps or Eastwood's whip lizard (Tetradactylus eastwoodae) was a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species was endemic to South Africa. Its natural habitat was subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. It became extinct due to habitat loss.[1]
Etymology[]
The specific name, eastwoodae, is in honor of Miss A. Eastwood who collected the holotype.[2]
Extinction[]
The type locality for T. eastwoodae is the Haenertzberg area near Woodbush in the Letaba district approximately 5 km West of where the Magoebaskloof hotel now is, where two specimens were found during the early 20th century around 1911. Subsequently, the area has been intensively planted to Eucalyptus and Pinus tree species for commercial use, and the grasslands where this species once occurred have now been eradicated. Searches in remaining grasslands have not been able to establish that any living specimens remain, and since no specimens since 1911 have been found, it is now considered extinct.
References[]
- ^ a b Bates, M.F.; Jacobsen, N. (2018). "Tetradactylus eastwoodae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T21663A115653635. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T21663A115653635.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ 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. (Tetradactylus eastwoodae, p. 80).
- IUCN Red List extinct species
- Tetradactylus
- Extinct reptiles
- Extinct animals of Africa
- Reptiles described in 1913
- Taxa named by Paul Ayshford Methuen
- Taxa named by John Hewitt (herpetologist)
- Lizard stubs