Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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Common Names | E: Blue-tailed snake-eyed skink |
Synonym | Ablepharus megalurus NIEDEN 1913 Afroablepharus megalurus — GREER 1974 Panaspis megalurus — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 16 Panaspis megalurus — SPAWLS et al. 2002: 155 Panaspis megalura — SPAWLS 2017 Panaspis megalurus — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 164 |
Distribution | C Tanzania (from Unyanganyi south to Sananda on the Central Railway), Kenya
Type locality: “Unyanganyi, east of Singida, Tanganyika territory”, also given as Kinjanganja in Tutu, 4° 50’ S = Unyanganyi, Turu, Tanzania.
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: ZMB 13226, Kinjanganja, D.O.A., collected Stuhlmann. (See Fuhn, 1070). |
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Comment | Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. |
Etymology | From the Greek megas (large) and Greek and oura = tail, for the relatively long tail. |
References |
- Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70
- Greer, A.E. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 1-67. - get paper here
- Jacobson, N. H. G. & D. G. BROADLEY 2000. A new species of Panaspis COPE (Reptilia: Scincidae) from southern Africa. African Journal of Herpetology 49 (1): 61-71 - get paper here
- KILUNDA, FELISTA KASYOKA; WERNER CONRADIE, DOMNICK VICTOR WASONGA, JIE-QIONG JIN, MIN-SHENG PENG, ROBERT W. MURPHY, PATRICK KINYATTA MALONZA, JING CHE 2019. Revalidation and resurrection of Panaspis massaiensis (Angel, 1924) and the description of a new species of Panaspis Cope (Squamata: Scincidae) from south-eastern Kenya. Zootaxa 4706 (2): 255–274 - get paper here
- Nieden, F. 1913. Neues Verzeichnis der Kriechtiere (außer den Schlangen) von Deutsch-Ostafrika, I. Teil: Reptilia. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 7 (1): 51-100 - get paper here
- Spawls, S. 2017. A Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of the Maasai Mara Ecosystem. Norwich City College Print Room - get paper here
- Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2002. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147] - get paper here
- Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 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
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