Stenolepis

Stenolepis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Infraorder: Scincomorpha
Family: Gymnophthalmidae
Subfamily: Gymnophthalminae
Genus: Stenolepis
Boulenger, 1887
Species: S. ridleyi
Binomial name
Stenolepis ridleyi
Boulenger, 1887

Stenolepis is a genus of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae, a family commonly known as microteiids or spectacled lizards. The genus Stenolepis contains a single species, Stenolepis ridleyi, commonly known as the Pernambuco teiid. The species is endemic to Brazil, and the common name refers to its type locality in Pernambuco state in northeast Brazil.[1]

Etymology

The specific name, ridleyi, is in honor of British botanist Henry Nicholas Ridley.[2]

References

  1. Stenolepis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Stenolepis ridleyi, p. 221).

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