''Pseuderemias smithii'', also known
commonly as Smith's racerunner or Smith's sand racer, is a
species
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lizard in the
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Lacertidae. The species is native to
East Africa.
Etymology
''P. smithii'' is named after
Arthur Donaldson Smith
Arthur Donaldson Smith (1866–1939) was an American physician, hunter, and explorer of Africa. In the 1890s he made a geological expedition to Lake Rudolph (now Lake Turkana), passing through what was then Somaliland, southern Ethiopia and Kenya ...
, who was an American physician and traveller.
[ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Pseuderemias smithii'', p. 247).]
Geographic range
''P. smithii'' is found in Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
, Kenya
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, and Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
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Reproduction
''P. smithii'' is oviparous.[
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References
Further reading
* Boulenger GA (1895). "An Account of the Reptiles and Batrachians collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in Western Somali-land and the Galla Country". ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 1895: 530–540 + Plates XXIX & XXX. ("''Eremias smithi'' ic, new species, pp. 534–535 + "''Eremias smithii'' ic, Plate XXIX, figure 4).
* Largen M, Spawls S (2010). ''The Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea''. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp. (''Pseuderemias smithii'', p. 369).
* Parker HW (1942). "The Lizards of British Somaliland". ''Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College'' 91: 1–101. ("''Eremias smithi'' ic, p. 62).
* Szczerbak, "Nikolai N." (1989). "Catalogue of the African Sand Lizards (Reptilia: Sauria: Eremiainae: ''Lampreremias'', ''Pseuderemias'', ''Taenieremias'', ''Mesalina'', ''Meroles'')". ''Herpetozoa'' 1 (3/4): 119–132. (''Pseuderemias smithii'', p. 129).
*Spawls S, Howell K, Hinkel H, Menegon M (2018). ''Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition''. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. . (''Pseuderemias smithii'', p. 201).
Pseuderemias
Lacertid lizards of Africa
Reptiles of Ethiopia
Reptiles of Kenya
Reptiles of Somalia
Reptiles described in 1895
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
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