Loveridge's limbless skink (Melanoseps loveridgei) is an extant species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is found in Tanzania and Zambia.[1]
Melanoseps loveridgei | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Scincidae |
Genus: | Melanoseps |
Species: | M. loveridgei
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Binomial name | |
Melanoseps loveridgei Brygoo & Roux-Estève, 1982
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Etymology
editThe specific name, loveridgei, is in honor of British herpetologist Arthur Loveridge.[2]
References
edit- ^ Melanoseps loveridgei 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. (Melanoseps loveridgei, p. 161).