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Takydromus kuehnei

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Species of lizard

Takydromus kuehnei
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Genus: Takydromus
Species: T. kuehnei
Binomial name
Takydromus kuehnei
Van Denburgh, 1909
Synonyms
  • Platyplacopus kuehnei
    (Van Denburgh, 1909)
  • Takydromus chinensis
    T. Vogt, 1914

Takydromus kuehnei is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is native to Southeast Asia. There are two recognized subspecies.

Etymology

The specific name, kuehnei, is in honor of American herpetologist Joseph Cheesman Thompson, who as a spy in Japan (1909–1911) used the nom de guerre Victor Kühne.

Geographic range

T. kuehnei is found in southeastern China, Taiwan, and northern Vietnam.

Description

Dorsally, T. kuehnei is olive or olive brown. Ventrally it is white. It has inguinal pores, 4–5 on each side.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of T. kuehnei is forest, at altitudes from sea level to 1,110 m (3,640 ft).

Behavior

T. kuehnei is terrestrial and diurnal.

Reproduction

T. kuehnei is oviparous. Clutch size is one or two eggs, and a female may lay as many as four clutches in a year.

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.

References

  1. ^ Nguyen TQ, Shang G, Yang J (2019). "Takydromus kuehnei ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T178242A112147973.en. Accessed on 25 October 2024.
  2. ^ Takydromus kuehnei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 May 2019.
  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. (Takydromus kuehnei, p. 147).

Further reading

  • Stejneger L (1910). "The Batrachians and Reptiles of Formosa". Proceedings of the United States National Museum 38: 91–114. (Takydromus kuehnei, p. 101).
  • Van Denburgh J (1909). "New and Previously Unrecorded Species of Reptiles and Amphibians from the Island of Formosa". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 3 (3): 49–56. (Takydromus kuehnei, new species, p. 50).
  • Vogt T (1914). "Südchinesische Amphibien und Reptilien ". Sitzsungberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1914: 96–102. (Takydromus chinensis, new species, pp. 98–99). (in German).
  • Ziegler T, Bischoff W (1999). "Takydromus (Platyplacopus) kuehni vietnamensis ssp. n., eine neue Schnelläufereidechsen-Unterart aus Vietnam (Reptilia: Squamata: Lacertidae)". Salamandra 35 (4): 209–226. (Takydromus kuehnei vietnamensis, new subspecies). (in German).


Taxon identifiers
Takydromus kuehnei


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