Adolfus alleni
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| Species: | A. alleni
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| Algyroides alleni (Barbour, 1914)
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Algyroides alleni is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae.[2]
Geographic range
A. alleni is found only in alpine moorlands of Mount Kenya, Mount Elgon, and the Aberdares Mountains in Kenya.[2]
Etymology
The specific name, alleni, is in honor of American zoologist Glover Morrill Allen.[3]
References
- ^ "Adolfus alleni ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ a b Greer AE. 1968. Mode of reproduction in the squamate faunas of three altitudinally correlated life zones in East Africa. Herpetologica 24 (3): 229-232.
- ^ Beolens B, Watson M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Adolfus alleni, p. 5).
Further reading
- Barbour T. 1914. Some New Reptiles. Proc. New England Zool. Club 4: 95-98. (Algiroides alleni, new species, pp. 97-98).