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Bachia dorbignyi (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1839)

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Higher TaxaGymnophthalmidae (Cercosaurinae, Bachiinae), Sauria, Gymnophthalmoidea, Squamata (lizards) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesDorbigny's Bachia 
SynonymChalcides dorbignyi DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 462
Bachia dorbignyi — GRAY 1845: 58
Cophias dorbignyi — BOULENGER 1885: 417
Bachia dorbignyi — GARMAN 1892: 2
Bachia dorbignyi — VANZOLINI 1961: 198
Bachia dorbignyi — PETERS et al. 1970: 80
Bachia dorbignyi — DIRKSEN & DE LA RIVA 1999
Bachia dorbignyi — DE FREITAS et al. 2011
Bachia dorbignyi — COSTA-PRUDENTE et al. 2013 
DistributionSE Peru, E Bolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz), Brazil (W Rondonia, Acre, Mato Grosso?)

Type locality: Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN = MHNP 2841 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (subfamily Bachiinae): Bauplan associated with fossorial habits. Body serpentiform, elongate, cylindrical. Four reduced limbs, especially hind limbs, with variable number of digits, some lacking claws. External ear absent; lower eyelid with unsegmented semi-transparent disc. Head scales reduced in number; frontoparietals absent. Ventrals smooth (Colli et al. 201).
 
CommentType species: Chalcides dorbignyi DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839 is the type species of the genus Bachia GRAY 184. Bachia is the type genus of the tribus Bachini (CAstoe et al. 2004) or the subfamily Bachiinae (Colli et al. 2015, Pyron et al. 2013).

Distribution: see map in TEXEIRA et al. 2013: 412. Not in Paraguay (Paul Smith, pers. comm., 27 Apr 2014). 
Etymology 
References
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  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here
  • Boulenger,G.A. 1898. A list of the reptiles and batrachians collected by the late Prof. L. Balzan in Boliva. Ann. Mus. Civ. Storia Nat. Genova (2) 19: 128-133 - get paper here
  • Castrillon, M.I & C. STRUSSMAN 1998. Nova espécie de Bachia e a presença de B. dorbignyi (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON) no sudoeste de Mato Grosso, Brasil (Sauria, Gymnophthalmidae). Revista Bras. Zool. 15 (3): 567-581.
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  • COLLI, GUARINO R.; MARINUS S. HOOGMOED, DAVID C. CANNATELLA, JOSÉ CASSIMIRO, JERRIANE OLIVEIRA GOMES, JOSÉ MÁRIO GHELLERE, PEDRO M. SALES NUNES, KÁTIA C. M. PELLEGRINO, PATRICIA SALERNO, SERGIO MARQUES DE SOUZA & MIGUEL TREFAUT RODRIGUES 2015. Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new genus and two new species of lizards from Brazilian Amazonia, with nomenclatural comments on the taxonomy of Gymnophthalmidae (Reptilia: Squamata) Zootaxa 4000 (4): 401–427 - get paper here
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