Loveridgea

Genus of amphisbaenians

Loveridgea

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Reptilia
Order:  | Squamata
Family:  | Amphisbaenidae
Genus:  | Loveridgea
Vanzolini, 1951
Species

Two, see text.

Loveridgea is a genus of amphisbaenians in the family Amphisbaenidae. Species in the genus are commonly known as worm lizards, even though they are not lizards. Two species are placed in this genus.[1]

## Etymology[edit]

The generic name, Loveridgea, is in honor of British herpetologist Arthur Loveridge.[2]

The specific name, ionidesii, is in honor of British game warden Constantine John Philip Ionides (1901–1968), who was known as the "Snake Man of British East Africa".[3]

## Species[edit]

* Loveridgea ionidesii (Battersby, 1950) \- Liwale round-snouted worm lizard
* Loveridgea phylofiniens (Tornier, 1899) \- Udjiji worm lizard

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

## References[edit]

1. ^ Loveridgea at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 July 2018.
2. ^ Vanzolini PE (1951). "A Systematic Arrangement of the Family Amphisbaenidae (Sauria)". Herpetologica 7 (3): 133-123. (Loveridgea, new genus).
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. (Loveridgea ionidesii, p. 130).

## Further reading[edit]

Wikispecies has information related to Loveridgea.

* Battersby JC (1950). "A new amphisbaenid lizard from Tanganyika territory and notes on the rare snake Chilorhinophis ". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Twelfth Series 3: 413-417. (Amphisbaena ionidesii, new species).
* Gans C (2005). "Checklist and Bibliography of the Amphisbaenia of the World". Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. (289): 1-130.
* Tornier G (1899). "Drei Reptilien aus Afrika ". Zoologischer Anzeiger 22 (588): 258-261. (Amphisbaena phylofiniens, new species, pp. 260–261). (in German).

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q39027
* Wikispecies: Loveridgea
* ADW: Loveridgea
* CoL: 62Y3L
* EoL: 96634
* GBIF: 2473139
* iNaturalist: 31787
* ITIS: 1125412

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