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Panaspis duruarum (MONARD, 1949)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymAblepharus duruarum MONARD 1949: 741
Afroablepharus duruarus — GREER 1974
Panaspis duruarum — FUHN 1970
Panaspis (Afroablepharus) duruarum — PERRET 1975: 8
Panaspis duruarum — LEBRETON 1999
Afroablepharus duruarum — SCHMITZ et al. 2005
Panaspis duruarum — MEDINA et al. 2016 
DistributionCameroon

Type locality: Ngaouyanga, Cameroon.  
Reproduction 
TypesSyntypes: LCFM (also as MHN, La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland) 1100, 1135, 1212. 
Diagnosis 
CommentAbundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024. 
EtymologyMonard doesn’t give a specific etymology for the species, but does note that the types were found by a native from an adjacent village (Translation: “These three specimens were brought to me by a young native from a neighboring village, Ngések, who had found them while cultivating his fields. I showed them several times to my usual collectors who did not know the species or were unable to find it.”). The name is likely based on the genitive of a group of people (Duru plus the feminine plural genitive suffix -arum, meaning “Belonging to the Duru”). The Duru are a language group from the northern Cameroon, and the paper is based on collections from this region. (Glenn Shea, pers. comm., 2 Feb 2024)
 
References
  • Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp.
  • Fuhn, I. E. 1970. Contribution à la systématique des lygosomines Africains (Reptilia, Scincidae). I. Les espèces attribuées au genre Ablepharus. Rev. Roumaine Biol., ser. Zool. 15: 379-393
  • Greer, A.E. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 1-67. - get paper here
  • Jacobson, N. H. G. & D. G. BROADLEY 2000. A new species of Panaspis COPE (Reptilia: Scincidae) from southern Africa. African Journal of Herpetology 49 (1): 61-71 - get paper here
  • LeBreton, Matthew 1999. A working checklist of the herpetofauna of Cameroon. Netherlands Committee for IUCN, 160 pp.
  • Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - get paper here
  • Medina, Maria F.; Aaron M. Bauer, William R. Branch, Andreas Schmitz, Werner Conradie, Zoltan T. Nagy, Toby J. Hibbitts, Raffael Ernst, Daniel M. Portik, Stuart V. Nielsen, Timothy J. Colston, Chifundera Kusamba, Mathias Behangana, Mark-Oliver Rödel, 2016. Molecular phylogeny of Panaspis and Afroablepharus skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) in the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 100: 409–423, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.026 - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here
  • Monard, ALBERT 1949. Vertébrés nouveaux du Cameroun. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 56 (38): 731-745 - get paper here
  • Perret,J. L. 1975. La différentiation dans le genre Panaspis COPE (Reptilia, Scincidae). Bull. Soc. neuchâtel. Sci. Nat., 98: 5-16
  • SCHMITZ, ANDREAS; IVAN INEICH & LAURENT CHIRIO 2005. Molecular review of the genus Panaspis sensu lato (Reptilia: Scincidae) in Cameroon, with special reference to the status of the proposed subgenera. Zootaxa 863: 1–28 - get paper here
 
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