Eastwood's long-tailed seps

Eastwood's longtailed seps or Eastwood's whip lizard (Tetradactylus eastwoodae) was a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species was endemic to South Africa. Its natural habitat was subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. It became extinct due to habitat loss.[2]

Eastwood's longtailed seps
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gerrhosauridae
Genus: Tetradactylus
Species:
T. eastwoodae
Binomial name
Tetradactylus eastwoodae
Methuen & Hewitt, 1913

Etymology

The specific name, eastwoodae, is in honor of Miss A. Eastwood who collected the holotype.[3]

Extinction

The type locality for T. eastwoodae is the Haenertzberg area near Woodbush in the Letaba district approximately 5 km West of where the Magoebaskloof hotel now is, where two specimens were found during the early 20th century around 1911. Subsequently, the area has been intensively planted to Eucalyptus and Pinus tree species for commercial use, and the grasslands where this species once occurred have now been eradicated. Searches in remaining grasslands have not been able to establish that any living specimens remain, and since no specimens since 1911 have been found, it is now considered extinct.

References
  1. Bates MF (2017). "Tetradactylus eastwoodae ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T21663A110324586. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T21663A110324586.en.
  2. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). Tetradactylus eastwoodae. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 28 July 2007.
  3. 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. (Tetradactylus eastwoodae, p. 80).


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