Biology:Algyroides alleni
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Lacertidae |
| Genus: | Adolfus |
| Species: | A. alleni
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| Binomial name | |
| Adolfus alleni (Barbour, 1914)
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Adolfus alleni is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae.[2] The species is endemic to Kenya.
Habitat & geographic range
A. alleni is found only in alpine moorlands of Mount Kenya, Mount Elgon, and the Aberdares Mountains in Kenya.[2]
Etymology
The specific name, alleni, is in honor of American zoologist Glover Morrill Allen.[3]
References
- ↑ "Adolfus alleni ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Greer AE (1968). "Mode of reproduction in the squamate faunas of three altitudinally correlated life zones in East Africa". Herpetologica 24 (3): 229-232.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watson, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Adolfus alleni, p. 5).
Further reading
- Barbour T (1914). "Some New Reptiles". Proc. New England Zool. Club 4: 95-98. (Algiroides alleni, new species, pp. 97–98).
Wikidata ☰ Q653359 entry
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