Bachia trisanale

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Bachia trisanale

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gymnophthalmidae
Genus: Bachia
Species:
B. trisanale
Binomial name
Bachia trisanale
(Cope, 1868)
Synonyms[2]
  • Ophiognomon trisanale
    Cope, 1868
  • Bachia trisanale
    — Duellman, 1978

Bachia trisanale, also known commonly as Stacy's bachia, is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The species is endemic to South America. There are three recognized subspecies.

Geographic range

B. trisanale is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of B. trisanale is forest.[1]

Description

B. trisanale has very small rudimentary legs. Each front leg has three terminal tubercles instead of digits. The back legs are minute and styliform. There are three elongate parallel

snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about 6.5 cm (2.6 in). The tail is very long, longer than SVL.[3]

Reproduction

B. trisanale is oviparous.[2]

Subspecies

The following three subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the

nominotypical subspecies.[2]

trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Bachia
.

Etymology

The subspecific name, abendrothii, is in honor of German arachnologist Ernst Robert Abendroth (1810–1871).[4]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T178683A44956726.en
    . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Bachia trisanale at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 18 July 2019.
  3. ^ Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Teiidæ ... . London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I–XXIV. (Ophignomon trisanale, pp. 420–421).
  4. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5
    . (Bachia trisanale abendrothii, p. 1).

Further reading

  • Cope ED (1868). "An Examination of the REPTILIA and BATRACHIA obtained by the Orton Expedition to Equador [sic] and the Upper Amazon, with notes on other Species". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 20: 96–140. (Ophiognomon trisanale, new species, pp. 100–101).


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