Tracheloptychus
Genus of lizards
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Tracheloptychus is a small genus of lizards in the family Gerrhosauridae. The genus is endemic to Madagascar.[1][2]
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There are two species which are recognized as being valid.[3][4]
The specific name, petersi, is in honor of German herpetologist Wilhelm Peters, who is the author of this genus.[6]
"Tracheloptychus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Glaw, Frank; Vences, Miguel (2007). A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar (3rd ed.). Cologne, Germany: Vences & Glaw Verlags. ISBN 978-3929449037. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Tracheloptychus petersi, pp. 204-205).
- Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Gerrhosauridæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Genus Tracheloptychus, p. 129; species T. madagascariensis, p. 129; species "T. petersii [sic]", p. 130).
- Grandidier A (1869). "Descriptions de quelques animaux nouveaux découverts, pendant l'année 1869, sur la côte ouest de Madagascar ". Revue et Magazine de Zoologie pure et appliquée (Paris), Series 2, 21: 337-342. (Tracheloptychus petersi, new species, pp. 339–340). (in French).
- Peters [W] (1854). "Diagnosen neuer Batrachier, welche zusammen mit der früher (24. Juli und 17. August) gegebenen Übersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden ". Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1854: 614-628. (Tracheloptychus, new genus, p. 617; T. madagascariensis, new species, pp. 617–618). (in German and Latin).
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