Adolfus
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Male of Adolfus jacksoni
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Male of Adolfus africanus
Adolfus is a genus of lizards of the family Lacertidae. The genus is endemic to subsaharan Africa.[2]
Etymology
The generic name, Adolfus, is in honor of German explorer Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg.[3]
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.[2]
- Adolfus africanus (Boulenger, 1906)
- Adolfus alleni (Barbour, 1914)
- Adolfus jacksoni (Boulenger, 1899)
- Adolfus masavaensis Wagner, Greenbaum & Branch, 2014
References
- ↑ "Adolfus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Lacertdae.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Adolfus ". The Reptile Database.
- ↑ 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. (Genus Adolfus, p. 2).
Further reading
- Greenbaum, E., Villanueva, C.O., Kusamba, C., Aristote, M.M. & Branch, W.R. 2011. "A molecular phylogeny of Equatorial African Lacertidae, with the description of a new genus and species from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 913–942.
- Sternfeld, R. 1912. "Reptilia". pp. 197-279 + Plates VI-IX. In: Schubotz, H. (Editor). 1913. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907-1908 unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg, Band IV [Volume 4], Zoologie II. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann. 485 pp. + 11 plates. (Adolfus, new genus, p. 220). (in German).
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