Anomalopus verreauxii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Anomalopus
Species:
A. verreauxii
Binomial name
Anomalopus verreauxii
Synonyms[2]
  • Anomalopus verreauxii
    A.M.C. Duméril & A.H.A. Duméril, 1851
  • Siaphus simplex
    Cope, 1864
  • Anomalopus godeffroyi
    W. Peters, 1867
  • Chelomeles pseudopus
    Günther, 1873
  • Lygosoma verreauxi
    — M.A. Smith, 1937
  • Anomalopus verreauxii
    — Cogger, 1983

Anomalopus verreauxii, also known commonly as the three-clawed worm-skink or Verreaux's skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.

Etymology

The specific name, verreauxii (masculine, genitive, singular), is in honor of one of the Verreaux brothers, Édouard Verreaux and Jules Verreaux, who were French naturalists and taxidermists.[3]

Geographic range

A. verreauxii is found in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of A. verreauxii is forest.[1]

Description

A. verreauxii has three clawed toes on the front leg, and it has no toes on the back leg.[4]

Reproduction

A. verreauxii is oviparous.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Vanderduys E, Venz M, Wilson S, Hobson R, Sanderson C (2018). "Anomalopus verreauxii ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T102965565A102965638. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T102965565A102965638.en. Downloaded on 30 April 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Anomalopus verreauxii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2015.
  3. ↑ 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. (Anomolopus verreauxii, p. 274).
  4. ↑ Greer & Cogger (1985).

Further reading

  • Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
  • Duméril AMC, Duméril AHA (1851). Catalogue méthodique de la collection des reptile du Muséum d'Histoire Naurelle de Paris. Paris: Gide et Baudry / Roret. 224 pp. (Anomalopus verreauxii, new species, p. 185). (in French).
  • Greer AE, Cogger HG (1985). "Systematics of the reduce-limbed and limbless skinks currently assigned to the genus Anomalopus (Lacertilia: Scincidae)". Records of the Australian Museum 37 (1): 11–54. (Anomalopus verreauxii, pp. 16–19, Figures 4–5)
  • Wilson, Steve; Swan, Gerry (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.



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