Biology:Sepsina copei
| Sepsina copei | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Sepsina |
| Species: | S. copei
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| Binomial name | |
| Sepsina copei Bocage, 1873
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Sepsina copei, also known commonly as Cope's reduced-limb skink or the sepsina skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Angola.[1]
Etymology
The specific name, copei, is in honor of American herpetologist and paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope.[2]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of S. copei is savanna, at altitudes from sea level to 600 m (2,000 ft).[3]
Description
S. copei may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 8 cm (3.1 in), and a tail length of 5 cm (2.0 in). The eye is small, and the lower eyelid is transparent. It has very short legs, with three toes on each foot. Dorsally, it is pale brown. Ventrally, it is whitish.[4]
Behavior
S. copei is terrestrial and fossorial.[3]
Reproduction
S. copei is viviparous.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sepsina copei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 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. (Sepsina copei, p. 59).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namediucn status 18 November 2021 - ↑ Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Scincidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. ("Sepsina copii [sic]", p. 421).
Further reading
- "Barboza [sic] du Bocage, J. V." (1873). "Mélanges erpétologiques. II. Sur quelques Reptiles et Batraciens nouveaux, rares ou peu connus d'Afrique occidentale". Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa 4 (15): 209–227. (Sepsina copei, new species, pp. 212–213). (in French).
- Marques MP, Ceríaco LMP, Blackburn DC, Bauer AM (2018). "Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola — Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017)". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 65: 1–501. (Supplement II). (Sepsina copei, p. 252).
Wikidata ☰ Q5121939 entry
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