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 — 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”
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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.” |
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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…"]. |
References |
- Arnold, E. N. 1989. Towards a phylogeny and biogeography of the Lacertidae: relationships within an Old-World family of lizards derived from morphology. Bulletin of the British Museum (NATURAL HISTORY) ZOOLOGY 55 (2): 209-257 - get paper here
- Arnold, E. N. 1989. Systematics and adaptive radiation of Equatorial African lizards assigned to the genera Adolfus, Bedriagaia, Gastropholis, Holaspis, and Lacerta (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Journal of Natural History 23: 525-555 - get paper here
- Arnold, E.N. 1989. Systematics and adaptive radiation of Equatorial African lizards assigned to the genera Adolfus, Bedriagaia, Gastropholis, Holaspis and Lacerta (Reptilia: Lacertidae) Journal of Natural History 23: 525-555 - get paper here
- Boulenger, George Albert 1916. Description of a new genus of the family Lacertidae from Central Africa. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 18: 112-114 - get paper here
- Boulenger,G.A. 1919. Batraciens et reptiles cecueillis par le Dr. C. Christy dans les districts de Stanleyville, Haut-Uelé et Ituri en 1912-1914. Rev. zool. afr., Bruxelles, 7 (1): 1-29
- Laurent, R.F. 1958. Notes herpétologiques africaines II. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 58 (1–2): 115–128
- Lokasola, Albert Lotana; Cédric Botshuna Lotana, Gabriel Badjejea Babangenge and Crispin Gembu Tungaluna 2017. Distributional Data of the Lizard Fauna (Sauria) of the Maringa-Lopori-Wamba Landscape, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering B 6: 151-159 - get paper here
- Schmidt, Karl Patterson 1919. Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the Collection of the American Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part I: turtles, crocodiles, lizards, and chamaeleons. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 39 (2): 385-624 - get paper here
- WITTE, G.-F. DE & R.F. LAURENT 1942. Liste des Lacertidae du Congo Belge et description d’une espèce nouvelle. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, Bruxelles, 36 (2): 165-180 - get paper here
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