Pedioplanis lineoocellata (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1839)
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Pedioplanis lineoocellata
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| Higher Taxa | Lacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | Pedioplanis lineoocellata inocellata (MERTENS 1955) Pedioplanis lineoocellata lineoocellata (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839) Pedioplanis lineoocellata pulchella (GRAY 1845) |
| Common Names | E: Spotted Sand Lizard, Ocellated Sand Lizard [lineoocellata] E: Common Sand Lizard [pulchella] |
| Synonym | Eremias lineo-ocellata DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 314 Eremias lineo-ocellata — ROUX 1907: 426 Eremias aspera BOULENGER 1917: 217 Eremias aspera BOULENGER 1921: 299 Eremias lineo-ocellata — LOVERIDGE 1936: 62 Eremias lineo-ocellata — FITZSIMONS 1943: 338 Eremias lineo-ocellata — FITZSIMONS & BRAIN 1958 Eremias lineo-ocellata — PIANKA 1969 Eremias lineoocellata — MERTENS 1971 Pedioplanis lineoocellata — ARNOLD 1986 Pedioplanis lineoocellata lineoocellata — AUERBACH 1987: 129 Mesalina lineo-ocellata lineo-ocellata — SZCZERBAK 1989 Pedioplanis lineoocellata lineoocellata — MAYER 1989 Pedioplanis lineoocellata — BAUER & BRANCH 2003 Pedioplanis lineoocellata — MAKOKHA et al. 2007 Pedioplanis lineoocellata — SCHLEICHER 2020 Pedioplanis lineoocellata inocellata (MERTENS 1955) Mesalina lineo-ocellata inocellata — SZCZERBAK 1989 Pedioplanis lineoocellata inocellata — MAYER 1989 Pedioplanis lineoocellata inocellata — BISCHOFF 1991 Pedioplanis lineoocellata inocellata — BATES et al. 2014: 175 Pedioplanis lineoocellata pulchella (GRAY 1845) Eremias pulchella GRAY 1845: 42 Eremias annulifera SMITH 1845 Eremias Formosa SMITH 1845 Eremias pulchra SMITH 1845 Eremias pulchella — MÜLLER 1880 Eremias pulchella — ROUX 1907: 426 Eremias lineoocellata pulchella — FITZSIMONS 1943: 341 Mesalina lineo-ocellata pulchella — SZCZERBAK 1989 Pedioplanis lineoocellata pulchella — MAYER 1989 Pedioplanis lineoocellata pulchella — BISCHOFF 1991 Pedioplanis pulchella — HERRMANN & BRANCH 2013 Pedioplanis lineoocellata pulchella — BATES et al. 2014: 175 |
| Distribution | Namibia, Botswana, N South Africa (without the east, S/W Cape province), SW Namibia Type locality: South Africa inocellata: Namibia; Type locality: between Bay of Lüderitz and Aus, Great Namaqualand. pulchella: Namibia; Great Namaqualand, extending south through Little Namaqualand to the western Cape Province and east across the central and southern karroid areas to the eastern Cape Province [from FITZSIMONS 1943]. Type locality: South Africa. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Types: BMNH Holotype: SMF 13893, famale [inocellata] Type: BMNH: 1946.8.7.36 (type of Eremias pulchra, GRAY 1845) [pulchra] |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | Bauer and Branch (2001) suggested that lineoocellata and inocellata should be elevated to full species given that they are allopatric and exhibit substantial morphological and ecological differences. The nominate race has slightly overlapping and keeled scales on the back that are smaller than those on the forelimbs, whereas P. l. pulchella has smooth, juxtaposed scales on the dorsum that are comparable in size to those of the forelimb, which are not overlapping and smooth on the back. Specimens from Lüderitz Bay in Namibia are sometimes treated as a third subspecies, P. l. inocellata (Mertens, 1955), named for its dull, dark gray body (occasionally with four faint dorsal stripes) and lack of large flank spots (Branch, 1998). MAKOKHA et al. (2007) found that lineoocellata and pulchella are nested within each other based on DNA phylogeny. Synonymy: partly after FITZSIMONS 1943. |
| Etymology | Named after Latin linea, string, line + L. ocellata, having ocelli, little eyes or buttonholes (in the sense of round spots). ["...mais toujours il règne de chaque côté du cou et du dos , deux séries de taches blanchâtres , cerclées de noir ; ces deux séries sont séparées par une raie blanche…"]. |
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