Biology:Stenolepis
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Short description: Genus of lizards
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gymnophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Stenolepis Boulenger, 1887 |
| Species: | S. ridleyi
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| Binomial name | |
| Stenolepis ridleyi Boulenger, 1887
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Stenolepis is a genus of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae, a family commonly known as microteiids or spectacled lizards. The genus Stenolepis contains a single species, Stenolepis ridleyi, commonly known as the Pernambuco teiid. The species is endemic to Brazil , and the common name refers to its type locality in Pernambuco state in northeast Brazil.[2]
Etymology
The specific name, ridleyi, is in honor of British botanist Henry Nicholas Ridley.[3]
Geographic range
S. ridleyi is found in the Brazilian states of Ceará and Pernambuco.[2] The type locality given by Boulenger is "the forest of Iguarasse, Pernambuco".[4]
Habitat
The natural habitats of S. ridleyi are forest and Savanna.[1]
Reproduction
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Colli, G.R.; Fenker, J.; Tedeschi, L.; Bataus, Y.S.L.; Uhlig, V.M.; Lima, A.; Nogueira, C. de C.; Borges-Nojosa, D.M. et al. (2019). "Stenolepis ridleyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T134887399A135333907. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T134887399A135333907.pt. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/134887399/135333907. Retrieved 18 November 2021.{{cite iucn}}: error: malformed |doi= identifier (help)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Stenolepis ridleyi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 14 January 2020.
- ↑ 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. (Stenolepis ridleyi, p. 221).
- ↑ Boulenger (1887), p. 642.
Further reading
- Boulenger GA (1887). "Description of a new Genus of Lizards of the Family Teiidæ". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1887: 640–642. (Stenolepis, new genus, p. 640; S. ridleyi, new species, pp. 640–642, Figures a-d).
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