Panaspis tancredi

The Ethiopian snake-eyed skink (Panaspis tancredi), also known commonly as Boulenger's dwarf skink, is a species of lidless skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic in Ethiopia.[1]

Panaspis tancredi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Panaspis
Species:
P. tancredi
Binomial name
Panaspis tancredi
(Boulenger, 1909)
Synonyms[1]
  • Ablepharus tancredii
    Boulenger, 1909
  • Afroablepharus tancredi
    — Greer, 1974
  • Panaspis tancredi
    — Broadley, 1998

Etymology

The specific name, tancredi, is in honor of Italian explorer Alfonso Maria Tancredi (died 1942).[2]

Reproduction

The mode of reproduction of P. tancredi is unknown.[1]

References
  1. Panaspis tancredi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 2018-02-21.
  2. 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. (Afroablepharus tancredi, p. 260).

Further reading
  • Boulenger GA (1909). "On the Reptiles and Batrachians collected by the Tancredi Expedition to Lake Tsana, Abyssinia". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie Terza 4: 193. (Ablepharus tancredii, new species).
  • Largen MJ, Spawls S (2010). Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp. ISBN 978-3899734669. (Panaspis tancredi, p. 407).



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