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Latastia boscai BEDRIAGA, 1884

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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesLatastia boscai arenicola (PARKER 1942)
Latastia boscai boscai (BEDRIAGA 1884)
Latastia boscai burii (BOULENGER 1907) 
Common NamesE: Eritrea Longtail Lizard, Bosca’s Long-tailed Lizard 
SynonymLatastia boscai BEDRIAGA 1884: 16
Latastia wachei WERNER 1913: 16 (fide BOULENGER 1921: 24)
? Latastia boscae — SCORTECCI 1931: 10
Latastia boscai — PARKER 1942: 69
Latastia boscai — ARILLO et al. 1967: 111
Latastia boscai — LARGEN & SPAWLS 2010: 352

Lacerta boscai boscai BEDRIAGA 1884
Latastia boscai BEDRIAGA 1884: 322
Latastia boscai boscai — PARKER 1942: 70
Latastia boscai boscai — ARILLO et al. 1967
Latastia boscai boscai — LANZA 1983: 214
Latastia boscai boscai — LANZA 1988

Lacerta boscai arenicola PARKER 1942
Lacerta boscai arenicola — PARKER 1942: 71
Latastia boscai arenicola — ARILLO et al. 1967
Latastia boscai arenicola — LANZA 1983: 215
Latastia boscai arenicola — LANZA 1988

Lacerta boscai burii BOULENGER 1907
Latastia Burii BOULENGER 1907: 393
Latastia boscai burii — PARKER 1942: 71
Latastia boscai burii — ARILLO et al. 1967
Latastia boscai burii — LANZA 1983: 215
Latastia boscai burii — MAZUCH 2013 
DistributionEthiopia, Eritrea, N/C Somalia, Djibouti

Type locality: “aus dem Lande der Adal (Rugdeira Sogheira) und aus dem Lande der Bogos (Keren)”.

arenicola: Somalia, SE Ethiopia

burii: N Somalia

wachei: Terra typica: Abessinien [= Ethiopia], 70 km NW Harrar (Collecting place 2).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntype: MSNG 10118
Syntypes: ZMH R01224-1225 (formerly no. 3920), leg. G. WACHE Dez. 24, 1909 [wachei]
Syntypes: BMNH, British Somaliland. Haud, Ado, Italian Somaliland, Dolo [arenicola]
Syntypes: BMNH 1946.9.2.94-95 (1905.10.30.42-43), Somali, near Berbera Coll. G.W. Bury [burii] 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 1619 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentReference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after Eduardo Boscá y Casanoves (1844-1924), Spanish herpetologist. 
References
  • Arillo, BALLETTO & SPANO 1967. Il genere Latastia Bedriaga in Somalia. Boll. Musei Ist. Biol. Univ. Genova 35: 105-145
  • Bedriaga,J. von 1884. Die neue Lacertiden-Gattung Latastia und ihre Arten. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 20: 307-324 - get paper here
  • 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. 1907. Descriptions of two new African lizards of the genus Latastia [L. johnstonii , L. burii]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 19: 392-394 - get paper here
  • Ineich, I. 1999. Reptiles & Amphibiens de la République de Djibouti. BNDB, UICN, PNUD, Djibouti & MNHN, Paris, 60 pp. - get paper here
  • Lanza, B. 1983. A list of the Somali amphibians and reptiles. MONITORE ZOOLOGICO ITALIANO, new Ser., SUPPL. 18 (8): 193-247 - get paper here
  • Lanza, B. 1990. Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography. Biogeographia, 14: 407-465 [1988] - get paper here
  • Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2006. Lizards of Ethiopia (Reptilia Sauria): an annotated checklist, bibliography, gazetteer and identification. Tropical Zoology 19 (1): 21-109 - get paper here
  • Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2010. Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 694 pp.
  • Mazuch, Tomáš 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Somaliland and Eastern Ethiopia. Tomáš Mazuch Publishing, 80 pp. ISBN: 978-80-905439-0-4 - get paper here
  • Parker, H. W. 1942. The lizards of British Somaliland. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 91: 1—101 - get paper here
  • Scortecci, Giuseppe 1931. Contributo alla conoscenza dei rettili e degli anfibi della Somalia, dell'Eritrea e dell'Abissinia. Boll. Mus. Zool. Univ. Torino, (ser. 3) 41 (10): 1-26 [1930]
  • Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
  • Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
  • Werner, F. 1913. Neue oder seltene Reptilien und Frösche des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. Reptilien der Ostafrika-Expedition der Hamburger Geographischen Gesellschaft 1911/12. Leiter: Dr. E. Obst. Reptilien und Amphibien von Formosa. [these are 3 separate reports in one long article] Jb. Hamb. wiss. Anst., 30 [1912], 2. Beiheft: 1-39, 40-45, 45-51 - get paper here
 
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