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Congolacerta vauereselli

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Species of lizard

Congolacerta vauereselli
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Genus: Congolacerta
Species: C. vauereselli
Binomial name
Congolacerta vauereselli
(Tornier, 1902)
Synonyms
  • Lacerta vauereselli
    Tornier, 1902
  • Lacerta (Zootoca) vauereselli
    — de Witte & Laurent, 1942
  • Adolfus vauereselli
    — Arnold, 1973
  • Congolacerta vauereselli
    — Greenbaum et al., 2011

Congolacerta vauereselli, also known commonly as the sparse-scaled forest lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is native to central Africa.

Etymology

Tornier (1902) did not explain the source of the specific name vauereselli.

Geographic range

C. vauereselli is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Habitat

The preferred natural Habitat of C. vauereselli is forest, at altitudes of 1,000–2,400 m (3,300–7,900 ft).

Reproduction

References

  1. ^ Wagner, P.; Spawls, S. (2021). "Congolacerta vauereselli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T178426A46107660. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T178426A46107660.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. Spawls S, Howell K, Drewes R, Ashe J (2002). A Field Guide to the Reptiles of East Africa. Cologne, Germany: Academic Press. 544 pp. ISBN 0-12-656470-1.
  3. 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. (Adolfus vauereselli, p. 273).
  4. ^ Species Congolacerta vauereselli at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • Greenbaum E, Villanueva CO, Kusamba C, Aristote MM, Branch WR (2011). "A molecular phylogeny of Equatorial African Lacertidae, with the description of a new genus and species from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 913–942. (Congolacerta vauereselli, new combination, p. 927).
  • Spawls, Stephen; Howell, Kim; Hinkel, Harald; Menegon, Michele (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. ISBN 978-1472935618.
  • Tornier G (1902). "Herpetologisch Neues aus Ost-Afrika". Zoologischer Anzeiger 25: 700–704. (Lacerta vauereselli, new species, pp. 701–703). (in German).
Taxon identifiers
Congolacerta vauereselli


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