Eastwood flagellated lizard
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The Eastwood flagellated lizard ( Tetradactylus eastwoodae ) is a presumably extinct species of lizard from the genus of the flagellated lizard ( Tetradactylus ). The type epithet honors the South African biologist Audrey Eastwood, who collected the holotype in 1912.
features
The head-trunk length of the holotype is 64 mm and the tail length 126 mm. The top is olive brown. The back and the tail are monochrome or characterized by indistinctly marked dark longitudinal lines, rows or spots. The underside is light gray-brown. The skull has dark spots. The physique is serpentine. The limbs are very small and the toes are clenched. The 5 mm long forelimbs are three toed. The middle toe is the longest, the inner toe longer than the tiny outer toe. At 6.5 mm, the hind limbs are slightly longer than the front limbs and have two toes. The inner toe is tiny. The dorsal scales are furrowed and strongly keeled. They are arranged in 12 longitudinal rows and in 67 to 70 transverse rows. The ventral shields are divided into 6 to 8 longitudinal rows and about 50 transverse rows. The tail is partially renewed.
Occurrence and habitat
The Eastwood flagellated lizard was endemic to the Woodbush Forest Reserve in Limpopo Province in northern South Africa. She lived in open montane grassland.
die out
The Eastwood flagellated lizard is only known from two specimens collected in 1912 and 1928, which are now kept in the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria . The grasslands were destroyed by fire and the region was reforested with pine trees.
literature
- John Hewitt, Paul A. Methuen: Descriptions of some new Batrachia and Lacertilia from South Africa. In: Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. Vol. 3, 1913, ISSN 0035-919X , pp. 107-111, doi : 10.1080 / 00359191309519682 .
- Vivian F. Fitzsimons: The Lizards of South Africa (= Transvaal Museum. Memoir. Vol. 1, ZDB -ID 989392-1 ). Published by Order of the Trustees of the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria 1943.