Panaspis
Appearance
Panaspis | |
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Panaspis wahlbergii, Wahlberg's snake-eyed skink, Durban, South Africa | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Scincidae |
Subfamily: | Eugongylinae |
Genus: | Panaspis Cope, 1868 |
Species | |
16 sp., see text | |
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Panaspis is a genus of skinks, commonly called lidless skinks or snake-eyed skinks, endemic to Sub-saharan Africa.
Species
The following 16 species, listed alphabetically by specific name, are recognized as being valid:[1]
- Panaspis africanus (Gray, 1845) – Guinea lidless skink
- Panaspis annobonensis (Fuhn, 1972) – Annobón lidless skink
- Panaspis breviceps (W. Peters, 1873) – Peters's lidless skink
- Panaspis burgeoni (de Witte, 1933)
- Panaspis cabindae (Bocage, 1866) – Cabinda lidless skink
- Panaspis duruarum (Monard, 1949)
- Panaspis helleri (Loveridge, 1932)
- Panaspis maculicollis (Jacobson & Broadley, 2000) – spotted-neck snake-eyed skink
- Panaspis megalurus (Nieden, 1913) – blue-tailed snake-eyed skink
- Panaspis nimbaensis (Angel, 1944) – Ruwenzori lidless skink
- Panaspis seydeli (De Witte, 1933) – Seydel‟s snake-eyed skink
- Panaspis tancredi (Boulenger, 1909)
- Panaspis thomensis Ceriaco, Soares, Marques, Bastos-Silveira, Scheinberg, Harris, Brehm, & Jesus, 2018
- Panaspis togoensis (F. Werner, 1902) – Togo lidless skink
- Panaspis wahlbergi (Smith, 1849) – Wahlberg’s snake-eyed skink, savannah lidless skink
- Panaspis wilsoni (Werner, 1919) – Wilson's snake-eyed skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Panaspis.
References
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Further reading
- Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books Publishing. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Panaspis, p. 159).
- Cope ED (1868). "Observations on REPTILES of the Old World. Art. II". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 316-323. (Panaspis, new genus, pp. 317–318).