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Sauresia habichii WEINLAND, 1863

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Higher TaxaDiploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Stout Four-toed Forest Lizard, Habich’s Galliwasp 
SynonymEmbryopus Habichii WEINLAND 1863: 135
Sauresia habichii — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2024: 234

Embryopus Habichii — Weinland, 1863:135
Sauresia sepsoides — Schwartz & Henderson 1988:162 (part)
Sauresia sepsoides — Schwartz & Henderson 1991:463 (part)
Celestus sepsoides — Hedges et al., 2019:17 (part)
Sauresia sepsoides — Schools & Hedges 2021:231 (part)
Sauresia sepsoides — Landestoy et al. 2022: 205 (part) 
DistributionHaiti

Type locality: Jérémie, Grand’Anse department, Haiti  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 1310, Collected by D. F. Weinland in 1857–58.
Other Material examined (n=11). HAITI. Grand’Anse. ANSP 38681–83, an adult from 8.0 km S of Marche Leon, collected by S. Blair Hedges, Manuel Leal, Richard Thomas, and Nicholas Plummer on 28 May 1991 (18.51678, -74.08311; 435 m); KU 227597–99, ca 3 km (airline) Sw Corail, 20 March 1966 (18.54806, -73.91232); KU 227802–03 (ca 7.5 km (airline) SSE Roseau, ca 2 km w La Bastille on 20 March 1966 (18.35407, -73.9395); MCZ R-74595, R-74598, David O. Hill, Trou-Bois on Jeremie Road, 1 January 1963; ZMB 1301, David Friedrich Weinland, Jeremie, 1857–1858. 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: previsously considered a synonym of S. sepsoides. 
EtymologyNamed after Edward Habich of Boston, a friend of Weinland who accompanied him during his six-month visit to Jérémie, Haiti, in 1857–1858. 
References
  • SCHOOLS, M., & HEDGES, S. B. 2024. A new forest lizard fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Diploglossidae, Celestinae). Zootaxa, 5554(1): 1-306 - get paper here
  • Weinland, D. F 1863. Beschreibung und Abbildung von drei neuen Sauriern. (Embryopus Habichii und Amphisbaena innocens von Haiti, und Brachymeles Leuckarti von Neuholland.). Abh. senckenb. naturf. Ges. (Frankfurt) 4: 131-143 [1862] - get paper here
 
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