Chioninia stangeri
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| Species: | C. geisthardi
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Chioninia stangeri is a species of skink in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Cape Verde Islands.[1][2]
Etymology
The species named is named after William Stanger.[3]
Other names
Synonyms names are Euprepis and Mabuya stangeri, both named by Gray in 1845, Euprepes polylepis named by Peters in 1870 and Euprepes and Mabuya hoppferi both named by Bocage in 1875.
References
- ^ Duméril & Bibron, 1839 : Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Vol. 5, Roret/Fain andThunot, Paris, 871 pages
- ^ Chioninia geisthardi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 28 January 2017.
- ^ Bo Beolens; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1–296.
Further reading
- Gray, 1845 : Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum, p. 1-289
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