Nucras

Nucras
Nucras tessellata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Subfamily: Lacertinae
Genus: Nucras
Gray, 1845[1]
Species

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Nucras is a genus of African lacertid lizards, commonly called sandveld lizards.[2]

Species

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The following 13 species are recognized as being valid.[3]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Nucras.

References

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  1. ^ "Nucras ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Lacertidae.
  2. ^ Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Nucras, p. 167-168; species of Nucras, pp. 168-170).
  3. ^ "Nucras ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  4. ^ Mouton, P. Lefras N.; Broeckhoven, Chris; Childers, Jackie L.; Bauer, Aaron M. (2019-02-22). "A new Nucras Gray, 1838 (Squamata: Lacertidae) from the Strandveld of the Western Cape, South Africa". Zootaxa. 4560 (1): 149–163. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4560.1.8. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 30790996.

Further reading

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  • Bischoff W (1991). "Übersicht der Arten und Unterarten der Familie Lacertidae 4. Die Gattungen Latastia, Meroles, Nucras, Ophisops, Pedioplanis und Philocortus". Die Eidechse 2 (4): 17–25. (in German).
  • Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Nucras, new genus, p. 33).