''Loveridgea'' is a
genus of
amphisbaenians in the
family Amphisbaenidae.
Species in the genus are
commonly known as worm lizards, even though they are not
lizard
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s. Two
species are placed in this genus.
Etymology
The
generic
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name, ''Loveridgea'', is in honor of British herpetologist
Arthur Loveridge.
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
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In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''ionidesii'', is in honor of British game warden
Constantine John Philip Ionides Constantine John Philip Ionides (1901–1968), nicknamed "Bobby" and then "Iodine", was a British-born naturalist and herpetologist known as the Snake Man of British East Africa. His decades as game warden (conservation officer) led to him being des ...
(1901–1968), who was known as the "Snake Man of British East Africa".
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Loveridgea ionidesii'', p. 130).]
Species
*''
Loveridgea ionidesii''
(Battersby
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See also
*Battersby railway statio ...
, 1950) - Liwale round-snouted worm lizard
*''
Loveridgea phylofiniens''
( Tornier, 1899) - Udjiji worm lizard
''
Nota bene'': A
binomial authority
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in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Loveridgea''.
References
Further reading
*
Battersby JC (1950). "A new amphisbaenid lizard from Tanganyika territory and notes on the rare snake ''Chilorhinophis'' ". ''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Twelfth Series'' 3: 413-417. (''Amphisbaena ionidesii'', new species).
*
Gans C (2005). "Checklist and Bibliography of the Amphisbaenia of the World". ''Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist.'' (289): 1-130.
*
Tornier G (1899). "''Drei Reptilien aus Afrika'' ". ''Zoologischer Anzeiger'' 22 (588): 258-261. (''Amphisbaena phylofiniens'', new species, pp. 260–261). (in German).
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Amphisbaenidae
Lizard genera
Taxa named by Paulo Vanzolini