Gastropholis tropidopholis (BOULENGER, 1916)
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Gastropholis tropidopholis
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| Higher Taxa | Lacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Bedriagaia tropidopholis BOULENGER 1916: 113 Bedriagaia tropidopholis — SCHMIDT 1919: 14 Bedriagaia tropidopholis — SCHMIDT 1919: 497 Bedriagaia tropidopholis — BOULENGER 1921 Bedriagaia tropidopholis — WITTE & LAURENT 1942: 172 Bedriagaia tropidopholis — LAURENT 1958: 118 Gastropholis tropidopholis — ARNOLD 1989 Gastropholis tropidopholis — LOKASOLA et al. 2017 |
| Distribution | C Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) Type locality: “Modje, Ituri, Belgian Congo” |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: RMCA (= MRAC) R.1646 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (Bedriagaia): Head-shields normal. Nostril pierced between the nasal, a postnasal, and the first upper labial. Lower eyelid scaly. Collar well marked. Dorsal scales large, rhombic, imbricate, and keeled; ventral plates obtusely pointed, imbricate, and keeled. Digits compressed, with smooth scales inferiorly. Femoral pores. Tail long, cylindrical. Intermediate between Algiroides, Bibr., and Poromera, Blgr. ; agreeing with the former in the dorsal lepidosis, with the latter in the ventral, in which it agrees also with Gastropholis, Fisch.” Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. However, these details, e.g. detailed descriptions (about about .96 pages) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material. |
| Comment | Type species: Bedriagaia tropidopholis BOULENGER 1916: 113 is the type species of the genus Bedriagaia BOULENGER 1916, now a synonym of Gastropholis. |
| Etymology | Named after Greek tropis (τροπίς), keel or a projecting part (such as a ridge) + Greek pholis (φολίς), scale. ["...Scales on nape granular and keeled, on body large, rhombic, imbricate and diagonally keeled…"]. |
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