Eastwood's long-tailed seps

Eastwood's longtailed seps
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria/Lacertilia
Infraorder: Scincomorpha
Family: Cordylidae
Genus: Tetradactylus
Species: T. eastwoodae
Binomial name
Tetradactylus eastwoodae
Methuen & Hewitt, 1913

Eastwood's longtailed seps or Eastwood's whip lizard (Tetradactylus eastwoodae) was a species of lizard in the Cordylidae family. It was endemic to South Africa. Its natural habitat was subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. It became extinct due to habitat loss.[1]

Etymology

The specific name, eastwoodae, is in honor of Miss A. Eastwood who collected the holotype.[2]

References

  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Tetradactylus eastwoodae. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 July 2007.
  2. 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. (Tetradactylus eastwoodae, p. 80).


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