Bachia

Bachia is a genus of lizards that belong to the spectacled lizards family.[1]

"Bachia" as described by Förster in 1869 is now the gelinine wasp genus Bachiana.

Bachia
Bachia bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gymnophthalmidae
Tribe: Bachini
Genus: Bachia
Gray, 1845

Species

The genus Bachia consists of 31[2] species:

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Bachia.

References

  1. Bachia. Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved: 2011-03029
  2. "Bachia". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Teixeira, Mauro Jr.; Recoder, Renato Sousa; Camacho, Agustín; de Sena, Marco Aurélio; Navas, Carlos Arturo; Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut (2013). "A new species of Bachia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Eastern Brazilian Cerrado, and data on its ecology, physiology and behavior". Zootaxa. 3616 (2): 173–189. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3616.2.6. PMID 24758802.
  4. Rodrigues MT, Pavan D, Curcio FF (2007). "Two New Species of Lizards of the Genus Bachia (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from Central Brazil". Journal of Herpetology 41 (4): 545–553.
  5. Rodrigues MT et al. (2008). "A new species of the lizard genus Bachia (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Cerrados of Central Brazil". Zootaxa 1875: 39-50. (Bachia oxyrhina, new species). http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01875p050f.pdf

Further reading

  • Dixon JR (1973). "A Systematic Review of the Teiid Lizards, Genus Bachia, with Remarks on Heterodactylus and Anotosaura ". Misc. Publ. Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. (57): 1-47.
  • Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Bachia, new genus, p. 58).


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