Sepsina alberti HEWITT, 1929
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Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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Common Names | E: Albert's (Burrowing) Skink |
Synonym | Sepsina alberti HEWITT 1929 (nom. subst.) Sepsina alberti — WELCH 1982: 78 Sepsina alberti — BAUER et al. 1993 |
Distribution | NW Namibia (Kaokoveld)
Type locality: Kaokoveld
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Reproduction | ovovivparous |
Types | Holotype: SAM (South African Museum) |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Sepsina alberti is a replacement name for Sepsina hessei HEWITT which is preoccupied by Sepsina hessei Boettger from the Congo (1887). |
Etymology | Possibly named after George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-British herpetologist. However, Hewitt gave no explanation of the name. |
References |
- Bauer, Aaron M.; Branch, William R. & Haacke, Wulf D. 1993. The herpetofauna of the Kamanjab area and adjacent Damaraland, Namibia. Madoqua (Windhoek) 18 (2): 117-145.
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- FitzSimons, V.F. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 pp.
- Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch 2013. Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115 - get paper here
- Hewitt, J. 1929. On some Scincidae from South Afrika, Madagascar and Ceylon. Annals Transvaal Mus. 13: 1-8 - get paper here
- Welch, K.R.G. 1982. Herpetology of Africa; a checklist and bibliography of the orders Amphisbaenia, Sauria, and Serpentes. Robert E. Krieger Pub. Co., Malabar, FL 293 pp.
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