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Panaspis seydeli
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Panaspis
Species:	P. seydeli
Binomial name
Panaspis seydeli (de Witte, 1933)
Synonyms
Ablepharus seydeli de Witte, 1933 Ablepharus moeruensis de Witte, 1933 Ablepharus smithii de Witte, 1936 Afroablepharus seydeli — Greer, 1974 Panaspis seydeli — Broadley & Cotterill, 2004

Panaspis seydeli, also known as the Seydel's snake-eyed skink, is a species of lidless skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is known from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia.

Etymology

The specific name, seydeli, is in honor of Belgian lepidopterist Charles Henri Victor Seydel (1873–1960).

Geographic range

P. seydeli is found in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Zambia.

References

1. ^ Bowles, P. (2021). "Panaspis seydeli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T113828592A113828603. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T113828592A113828603.en. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
2. ^ Panaspis seydeli at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 3 April 2022.
3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Afroablepharus seydeli, p. 241).

Further reading

• de Witte G-F (1933). "Reptiles récoltés au Congo Belge par le Dr. H. Schouteden et par M. G.-F. de Witte". Annales du Musée royal du Congo Belge, Première Série 3: 53–100. (Ablepharus seydeli, new species, p. 78). (in French).
• Greer AE (1974). "The genetic relationships of the Scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives". Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 22 (31): 1–67. (Afroablepharus seydeli, new combination).
• Medina, Maria F.; Bauer, Aaron M. ; Branch, William R.; Schmitz, Andreas ; Conradie, Werner; Nagy, Zoltán T.; Hibbitts, Toby J.; Ernst, Raffael; Portik, Daniel M.; Nielsen, Stuart V.; Colston, Timothy J.; Kusamba, Chifundera; Behangana, Mathias; Rödel, Mark-Oliver ; Greenbaum, Eli (2016). "Molecular phylogeny of Panaspis and Afroablepharus skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) in the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 100: 409–423. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.026. PMC 4898058. PMID 27118179. (Panaspis seydeli).

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