Biology:Sepsina bayoni

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Short description: Species of reptile

Sepsina bayoni
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Sepsina
Species:
S. bayoni
Binomial name
Sepsina bayoni
Bocage, 1866

Sepsina bayoni, Bayon's skink, is a species of lizard which is found in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, bayoni, is in honor of Francisco Antonio Pinheiro Bayão, a Portuguese planter in Angola, who collected the holotype.[3]

References

  1. Ceríaco, L.M.P., Baptista, N. & Conradie, W. 2020. Sepsina bayoni. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T44979324A44979332. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T44979324A44979332.en. Downloaded on 06 September 2020.
  2. Sepsina bayoni at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2020.
  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. (Sepsina alberti, p. 4; Sepsina bayoni, p. 20; Sepsina copei, p. 59).

Wikidata ☰ Q5126006 entry