''Chioninia delalandii'' (English: Delalande's skink) is a
species
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of skink, a
lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...
in the
family
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Scincidae. The species is
endemic
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to the
Cape Verde
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, official_languages = Portuguese
, national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole
, capital = Praia
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Islands.
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Etymology
The species is named after French naturalist Pierre Antoine Delalande.[ xiii + 296 pp. . (''Mabuya delalandii'', p. 68).]
References
Further reading
* Boulenger GA (1887). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Scincidæ ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (''Mabuia delalandii'', pp. 158–159).
*Mausfeld, Patrick; Schmitz, Andreas; Böhme, Wolfgang; Misof, Bernhard; Vrcibradic, Davor; Rocha, Carlos Frederico Duarte (2002). "Phylogenetic Affinities of ''Mabuya atlantica'' Schmidt, 1945, Endemic to the Atlantic Ocean Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha (Brazil): Necessity of Partitioning the genus ''Mabuya'' Fitzinger, 1826 (Scincidae: Lygosominae)". ''Zoologischer Anzeiger'' 241: 281–293. (''Chioninia delalandii'', new combination).
delalandii
Endemic vertebrates of Cape Verde
Reptiles described in 1839
Taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril
Taxa named by Gabriel Bibron
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