Pseuderemias savagei
Pseuderemias savagei | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Lacertidae |
Genus: | Pseuderemias |
Species: | P. savagei
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Binomial name | |
Pseuderemias savagei (Gans, Laurent & , 1965)
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Synonyms[1] | |
Pseuderemias savagei is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to Somalia.
Etymology[]
The specific name, savagei, is in honor of American herpetologist Jay M. Savage.[2]
Incorrect- This species is named in honor of Francis J. Savage, who was a USAID Foreign Service Officer stationed in Mogadishu, Somalia at the time, and invited Dr. Carl Gans to visit him in Somalia. My father was from Olean, New York and he contacted the State University of New York at Buffalo, where Dr. Gans worked at the time. Another species, Agamodon compressus was also discovered around this same time. I was a boy at the time but went collecting with Dr. Gans. Personal Observation. Signed: Ronald F. Savage Jan. 23, 2022
Geographic range[]
P. savagei is found in northeastern Somalia.[1]
Reproduction[]
References[]
- ^ a b c Pseuderemias savagei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 21 May 2019.
- ^ 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. (Pseuderemias savagei, p. 233).
Further reading[]
- Gans C, Laurent RF, (1965). "Notes on a herpetological collection from the Somali Republic". Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Central, Série in Octavo, Science Zoologique, Tervuren 134: 1-93. (Eremias savagei, new species).
- Sczczerbak, "Nikolai N." (1989). "Catalogue of the African Sand Lizards (Reptilia: Sauria: Eremiainae: Lampreremias, Pseuderemias, Taenieremias, Mesalina, Meroles)". Herpetozoa 1 (3/4): 119–132. (Pseuderemias savagei, p. 129).
- Pseuderemias
- Lacertid lizards of Africa
- Reptiles of Somalia
- Reptiles described in 1965
- Taxa named by Carl Gans
- Taxa named by Raymond Laurent
- Endemic fauna of Somalia
- Somali montane xeric woodlands
- Lacertidae stubs