Scincella potanini (GÜNTHER, 1896)
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Scincella potanini
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | Chinese: 康定滑蜥 |
| Synonym | Lygosoma potanini GÜNTHER 1896: 204 Scincella potanini MITTLEMAN 1952 Scincella potanini — GREER 1974: 7 Scincella potanini — WANG & ZHAO 1986 Scincella potanini — SHEA & GREER 2002 Scincella potanini — LINKEM et al. 2011 |
| Distribution | China (Kansu, Sichuan, Guizhou) Type locality: “town of Ta-tsien-Iu” (= Kangding Co.), Sichuan Prov., China |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: ZISP 8576 (considered “unlocated” by SHEA & GREER 2002), but not found in the ZISP collection in January 2017 fide Barabanov & Milto 2017. |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | SHEA & GREER 2002 could not locate the holotype of this species. |
| Etymology | named after the collector of the types, Mr. Potanin. Grigory Nikolayaevich Potanin (1835-1920) was a Russian explorer of Inner Asia. He served in a Cossack regiment in Siberia (1850s) and began support for Siberian separatism. He studied Physics in St Petersburg (1858-1861). He was arrested and imprisoned (1861) for participating in a student demonstration. Expelled from the University, on release, he returned to Siberia to work as a publisher. Arrested again (1867) for political activities he was sentenced to 3 years prison followed by 5 years hard labour. He led expeditions (1876-1877) to Mongolia and Northern China (1884-1886). He was a founder of Tomsk State University (1889). He supported the 1905 Revolution and was arrested. He was chairman of Siberia's short-lived Provisional Council (1917-1918). He wrote The Tangut-Tibetan Borderlands of China and Central Mongolia (1893). An asteroid is named after him [from Michal Watkins, pers. comm.]. |
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