''Cynisca rouxae'' is a
worm lizard
Amphisbaenia (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of usually legless squamates, comprising over 200 extant species. Amphisbaenians are characterized by their long bodies, the reduction or loss of the limbs, and rudimentary eyes. As ...
species
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in the
family
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Amphisbaenidae. The species is
endemic
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to the
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...
.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''rouxae'' (genitive, feminine, singular), is in honor of French herpetologist ''Mme''.
Rolande Roux-Estève.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Cynisca rouxae'', p. 228).]
Habitat
The preferred
habitat
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s of ''C. rouxae'' are
forest
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and
savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to ...
.
Reproduction
''C. rouxae'' is
oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and ...
.
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References
Further reading
* Brygoo E-R (1990). "''Les types d'Amphisbaenidés, Pygopodidés, Xantusiidés (Reptiles, Sauriens) du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle – Catalogue critique''". ''Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle'' (Ser. 4) A (3-4), suppl.: 3–8. (in French).
* Gans C (2005). "Checklist and Bibliography of the Amphisbaenia of the World". ''Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History'' (289): 1–130. (''Cynisca rouxae'', p. 29).
* Hahn DE (1979). "A new species of ''Cynisca'' (Amphisbaenidae) from the Ivory Coast" ''Copeia'' 1979 (1): 122–125. (''Cynisca rouxae'', new species).
* Rödel M-O, Grabow K (1996). "''Zur Kenntnis von'' Cynisca rouxae ''Hahn, 1979'' (Contributions to the knowledge of ''Cynisca rouxae'' Hahn, 1979)". ''Salamandra'' 32 (1): 13–22. (in German, with an abstract in English).
Cynisca (lizard)
Reptiles described in 1979
Taxa named by Donald E. Hahn
Endemic fauna of Ivory Coast
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