Bachia trisanale
Bachia trisanale, also known commonly as Stacy's bachia, is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The species is endemic to South America. There are three recognized subspecies.
| Bachia trisanale | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gymnophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Bachia |
| Species: | B. trisanale |
| Binomial name | |
| Bachia trisanale (Cope, 1868) | |
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Description
B. trisanale has very small rudimentary legs. Each front leg has three terminal tubercles instead of digits. The back legs are minute and styliform. There are three elongate parallel anal plates, to which the specific name refers. Adults have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about 6.5 cm (2.6 in). The tail is very long, longer than SVL.[3]
Subspecies
The following three subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.[2]
- Bachia trisanale abendrothii (W. Peters, 1871)
- Bachia trisanale trisanale (Cope, 1868)
- Bachia trisanale vermiformis (Cope, 1874)
Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Bachia.
Etymology
The subspecific name, abendrothii, is in honor of German arachnologist Ernst Robert Abendroth (1810–1871).[4]
References
- Aparicio, J.; Avila-Pires, T.C.S.; Moravec, J.; Perez, P. (2019). "Bachia trisanale". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T178683A44956726. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T178683A44956726.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- Bachia trisanale at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 18 July 2019.
- Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Teiidæ ... . London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I–XXIV. (Ophignomon trisanale, pp. 420–421).
- Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Bachia trisanale abendrothii, p. 1).
Further reading
- Cope ED (1868). "An Examination of the REPTILIA and BATRACHIA obtained by the Orton Expedition to Equador [sic] and the Upper Amazon, with notes on other Species". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 20: 96–140. (Ophiognomon trisanale, new species, pp. 100–101).