Loveridgea

Loveridgea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Clade:	Amphisbaenia
Family:	Amphisbaenidae
Genus:	Loveridgea Vanzolini, 1951
Species
Two, see text.

Loveridgea is a genus of amphisbaenians in the family Amphisbaenidae. Species in the genus are commonly known as worm lizards, even though they are not lizards. Two species are placed in this genus.

Etymology

The generic name, Loveridgea, is in honor of British herpetologist Arthur Loveridge.

Species

• Loveridgea ionidesii (Battersby, 1950) – Liwale round-snouted worm lizard
• Loveridgea phylofiniens (Tornier, 1899) – Udjiji worm lizard

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

References

Further reading

Wikispecies has information related to Loveridgea.

• Battersby JC (1950). "A new amphisbaenid lizard from Tanganyika territory and notes on the rare snake Chilorhinophis ". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Twelfth Series 3: 413-417. (Amphisbaena ionidesii, new species).
• Gans C (2005). "Checklist and Bibliography of the Amphisbaenia of the World". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (289): 1-130.
• Tornier G (1899). "Drei Reptilien aus Afrika ". Zoologischer Anzeiger 22 (588): 258-261. (Amphisbaena phylofiniens, new species, pp. 260–261). (in German).

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