Biology:Proctoporus rahmi
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Short description: Species of lizard
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gymnophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Proctoporus |
| Species: | P. rahmi
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| Binomial name | |
| Proctoporus rahmi (De Grijs, 1936)
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Proctoporus rahmi, Rahm's sun tegu, is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae.[2] It is endemic to Peru.
Etymology
The specific name, rahmi, is in honor of Peter Rahm who collected the holotype.[3]
Geographic range
P. rahmi is found in the Andes of southeastern Peru, near Cusco, at an altitude of 2,400 m (7,900 ft).[1][2]
Reproduction
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Aguilar C, Perez J (2016). "Euspondylus rahmi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T48280361A48280414. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T48280361A48280414.en. Downloaded on 04 August 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Proctoporus rahmi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 4 August 2019.
- ↑ 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. (Euspondylus rahmi, p. 216).
Further reading
- De Gris P (1936). "Prionodactylus rahmi, eine neue Eidechse aus den Anden [= Prionodactylus rahmi, a new lizard from the Andes]". Zoologische Anzeiger 116: 27–30. (Prionodactylus rahmi, new species). (in German).
- Köhler G, Lehr E (2004). "Comments on Euspondylus and Proctoporus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Peru, with the Description of Three New Species and a Key to the Peruvian Species". Herpetologica 60 (4): 501–518.
- Torres-Carvajal O, Lobos SE, Venegas PJ, Chávez G, Aguirre-Peñafiel V, Zurita D, Echevarría LY (2016). "Phylogeny and biogeography of the most diverse clade of South American gymnophthalmid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 99: 63–75. (Proctoporus rahmi, new combination).
Wikidata ☰ Q58479794 entry
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