Teira
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| Genus: | Gray,1838
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Comment: There already is an article on this species. If the objective of this submission is to have a separate stub article on the genus consisting of one species as distinct from the species itself, please resubmit with an explanation to that effect, and with a taxobox for a genus. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:28, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
The genus Teira is of the Lacertidae family and contains just one species: Teira dugesii, the Madeira wall lizard, which is endemic to the Autonomous Region of Madeira, but which was introduced by ships to the Azores and to Lisbon.[1], at least; though no population thrives as much as those on Madeira. It is the only lizard genus endemic to the Madeira islands, and its only species can be confirmedly identified by observation of its unusually long phalanges. Males and females can be optically differentiated by detection of either spots or stripes predominantly patterning the body: the former indicates a male, the latter - stripes - a female.
Taxonomy
In 1938, John Edward Gray named the only member of the genus after fellow naturalist Antoine Louis Dugès[2], who died that year, two years prior to Gray's appointment as keeper of zoology at The British Museum.
There are three subspecies of Madeiran wall lizard, one of whose names' retains Dugès' honour (Teira dugesii dugesii); another is named after German herpetologist Ulrich Joger (Teira dugesii jogeri)[3], and the other, Teira dugesii selvagensis, is named after the Selvagens Islands, where it can be found. The latter two were decidedly subspecial in 1989[4]
References
- ^ https://www.lacerta.de/AF/Bibliografie/BIB_643.pdf
- ^ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29350#page/76/mode/1up
- ^ Beolens, Bo (2011). The eponym dictionary of reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1421401355.
- ^ http://salamandra-journal.com/index.php/home/contents/1989-vol-25/948-bischoff-w-k-osenegg-w-mayer/file
Last edit explained need for separate genus page.
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