Proctoporus rahmi

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Proctoporus rahmi

Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gymnophthalmidae
Genus: Proctoporus
Species:
P. rahmi
Binomial name
Proctoporus rahmi
(, 1936)
Synonyms[2]
  • Prionodactylus rahmi
    De Grijs, 1936
  • Euspondylus rahmi
    — J. Peters &
  • Proctoporus rahmi
    — et al., 2016

Proctoporus rahmi, Rahm's sun tegu, is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae.[2]It is endemic to Peru.

Etymology[]

The specific name, rahmi, is in honor of who collected the holotype.[3]

Geographic range[]

P. rahmi is found in the Andes of southeastern Peru, near Cusco, at an altitude of 2,400 m (7,900 ft).[1][2]

Reproduction[]

P. rahmi is oviparous.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Aguilar C, Perez J (2016). "Euspondylus rahmi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T48280361A48280414. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T48280361A48280414.en. Downloaded on 04 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d Proctoporus rahmi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 4 August 2019.
  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. (Euspondylus rahmi, p. 216).

Further reading[]

  • (1936). "Prionodactylus rahmi, eine neue Eidechse aus den Anden [= Prionodactylus rahmi, a new lizard from the Andes]". Zoologische Anzeiger 116: 27–30. (Prionodactylus rahmi, new species). (in German).
  • Köhler G, Lehr E (2004). "Comments on Euspondylus and Proctoporus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Peru, with the Description of Three New Species and a Key to the Peruvian Species". Herpetologica 60 (4): 501–518.
  • , , , Chávez G, , , (2016). "Phylogeny and biogeography of the most diverse clade of South American gymnophthalmid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 99: 63–75. (Proctoporus rahmi, new combination).



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