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Philochortus hardeggeri (STEINDACHNER, 1891)

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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Hardegger's Orangetail Lizard, Hardegger's Shield-backed Lizard 
SynonymLatastia Hardeggeri STEINDACHNER 1891: 371
Eremias heterolepis BOETTGER 1893: 115 (fide BOULENGER 1897)
Latastia heterolepis — BOETTGER 1893: 193 (emendation)
Latastia Hardeggeri — BOULENGER 1898: 130
Latastia Hardeggeri — ANDERSON 1901: 145
Latastia degeni BOULENGER 1903: 55 (fide BOULENGER 1917: 154)
Latastia hardeggeri — NEUMANN 1905
Latastia hardeggeri — TORNIER 1905: 375
Philochortus hardeggeri — BOULENGER 1917: 154
Philochortus hardeggeri — LOVERIDGE 1936
Philochortus hardeggeri — LANZA 1983
Philochortus hardeggeri — LARGEN & SPAWLS 2010: 359 
DistributionSomalia, Djibouti, E Ethiopia

Type locality: Harar on the way from Heusa, Ethiopia; “Weg von Hensa nach Artu, Hararlande” fide TIEDEMANN et al. 1994  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: NMW 16810:1,2 (m.)
Holotype: BMNH 1946.9.3.41
Holotype: SMF 59441 [heterolepis] 
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CommentNot listed in the Zoological Record of 1891 or 1892.

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Dominik Kammel von Hardegger (1844-1915), an Austrian physician who explored Somalia and the Harar area, Ethiopia (1875), and Egypt and Nubia (1884-1885) (Beolens et al. 2011). 
References
  • Anderson, John 1901. A list of the reptiles and batrachians obtained by Mr. A. Blayney Percival in southern Arabia. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1901 (2): 137-152 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boettger, O. 1893. Berichtigungen betreffend Reptilien aus Somaliland. Zool. Anz. 16: 193. - get paper here
  • Boettger,O. 1893. Übersicht der von Prof. C. Keller anlässlich der Ruspoli'schen Expedition nach den Somaliländern gesammelten Reptilien und Batrachier. Zool. Anz. 16 (416): 113-119 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1898. On a second collection of reptiles made by Mr. E. Lord-Phillips in Somaliland. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 2: 130-133 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1903. Descriptions of two new lizards discovered by Mr. E. Degen in (sic) his journey to Abyssinia. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 11: 54-55 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1917. On the lizards of the genus Philochortus MATSCHIE. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1917: 145-157 - get paper here
  • Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 - get paper here
  • Lanza, B. 1983. A list of the Somali amphibians and reptiles. MONITORE ZOOLOGICO ITALIANO, new Ser., SUPPL. 18 (8): 193-247 - get paper here
  • Lanza, B. 1990. Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography. Biogeographia, 14: 407-465 [1988] - get paper here
  • Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2006. Lizards of Ethiopia (Reptilia Sauria): an annotated checklist, bibliography, gazetteer and identification. Tropical Zoology 19 (1): 21-109 - get paper here
  • Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2010. Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 694 pp.
  • Loveridge, A. 1936. African reptiles and amphibians in the Field Museum of Natural History. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago, 22 (1): 1-122 - get paper here
  • Mazuch, Tomáš 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Somaliland and Eastern Ethiopia. Tomáš Mazuch Publishing, 80 pp. ISBN: 978-80-905439-0-4 - get paper here
  • Neumann, Oscar Rudolph 1905. Über nordost-afrikanische und arabische Kriechtiere. Zool. Jahrb. Syst., 22: 389-404. - get paper here
  • Parker, H. W. 1942. The lizards of British Somaliland. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 91: 1—101 - get paper here
  • Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
  • Steindachner, F. 1891. Ueber neue und seltene Lacertiden aus der herpetologischen Sammlung des k. k. naturhistorisches Hofsmuseums. Ann. k. k. Hofmus. Wien 6: 371-378 - get paper here
  • Tiedemann,F.; Häupl,M. & Grillitsch,H. 1994. Katalog der Typen der herpetologischen Sammlung nach dem Stand vom 1. Jänner 1994. Teil II: Reptilia. Kat. wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 10 (Vertebrata 4): 1-110
  • Tornier, G. 1905. Schildkröten und Eidechsen aus Nord-Ost Afrika und Arabien. Aus Carlo v. Erlanger’s und Oscar Neumann’s Forschungsreise. Zool. Jahrb. Syst. 22: 365-388 - get paper here
  • Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
 
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