''Bachia alleni'' is a
species
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of
lizard in the
family
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Gymnophthalmidae
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. The species is
endemic
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to the southern
Caribbean.
Etymology
The
specific name, ''alleni'', is in honor of American Zoologist
Glover Morrill Allen
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He was born at Walpole, New Hampshire, the son of Reverend Nathaniel Glover Allen and Harriet Ann (Schouler) Allen, and studied at Harvard University. While s ...
.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, xiii + 296 pp. . (''Bachia heteropa alleni'', p. 5; ''Bachia cuvieri'', p. 63).]
The specific name, ''cuvieri'' (of the synonym, ''Bachia cuvieri)'', is in honor of French naturalist
Georges Cuvier.
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]
Geographic range
''B. alleni'' is found in Grenada, the Grenadines, and Tobago
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.
Reproduction
''B. alleni'' is oviparous.[
]
References
Further reading
* Barbour T (1914). "A Contribution to the Zoögeography of the West Indies, with Especial Reference to Amphibians and Reptiles". ''Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College'' 44 (2): 205–359 + Plate. (''Scolecosaurus alleni'', new species, pp. 315–316 + Plate, figures 11–15).
* Murphy JC, Salvi D, Santos JL, Braswell AL, Charles SP, Borzée A, Jowers MJ (2019). "The reduced limbed lizards of the genus ''Bachia'' (Reptilia, Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae); biogeography, cryptic diversity, and morphological convergence in the eastern Caribbean". ''Organisms Diversity & Evolution'' 19: 321–340. (''Bachia alleni)''.
* Schwartz A, Thomas R
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(1975). ''A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles''. Carnegie Museum of Natural History
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Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (''Bachia heteropus alleni'', p. 109).
Bachia
Reptiles described in 1914
Taxa named by Thomas Barbour
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