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Delalande's skink
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Chioninia
Species: C. delalandii
Binomial name
Chioninia delalandii
(A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839)
Synonyms
  • Euprepes delalandii
    A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839
  • Mabuia delalandii
    — Boulenger, 1887
  • Mabuya delalandii
    — Joger, 1993
  • Chioninia delalandii
    — Mausfeld et al., 2002

Chioninia delalandii (English: Delalande's skink) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Cape Verde Islands.

Etymology

The species is named after French naturalist Pierre Antoine Delalande.

References

  1. ^ Vasconcelos, R. (2013). "Chioninia delalandii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T13152380A13152387. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T13152380A13152387.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. Duméril AMC, Bibron G (1839). Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Tome cinquième . Paris: Roret. (Fain and Thunot, printers). viii + 854 pp. (Euprepes delalandii, new species, pp. 690-691). (in French).
  3. ^ Chioninia delalandii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 1 December 2016.
  4. 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. (Mabuya delalandii, p. 68).

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).
Taxon identifiers
Chioninia delalandii


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