鏟鼻蜥(英語:Shovel-snouted lizard),通常也稱為安基埃塔沙漠蜥蜴(Anchieta's desert lizard)、安基埃塔沙丘蜥蜴(Anchieta's dune lizard)和納米比潛沙員(Namib sand-diver),是蜥蜴科中的一種蜥蜴。該物種原產於非洲南部。

鏟鼻蜥
科學分類 編輯
界: 動物界 Animalia
門: 脊索動物門 Chordata
綱: 爬蟲綱 Reptilia
目: 有鱗目 Squamata
科: 正蜥科 Lacertidae
屬: 梅洛蜥蜴屬 Meroles
種:
鏟鼻蜥 M. anchietae
二名法
Meroles anchietae
(Bocage, 1867)
異名[2][3]
  • Pachyrhynchus anchietæ
    Bocage, 1867
  • Aporosaura anchietæ
    Boulenger, 1887
  • Aporosaura anchietae
    Loveridge, 1936
  • Meroles anchietae
    Arnold, 1989

詞源

地理範圍

安哥拉納米比亞被發現。[2]

棲息地

首選自然棲息地沙漠沙丘和稀疏的植被,海拔海平面到500公尺(1,600 ft)。[1]

描述

食性

捕食昆蟲,尤其是小甲蟲。在昆蟲稀少的乾旱時期,它也會吃種子。

生殖

鏟鼻蜥是卵生的動物。

參考資料

  1. ^ 1.0 1.1 Baptista N, Bauer AM, Becker F, Conradie W (2020). "Meroles anchietae ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T196981A110221608. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T196981A110221608.en. Downloaded on 12 April 2020.
  2. ^ 2.0 2.1 TIGR Reptile Database上的Meroles anchietae
  3. ^ Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. (Aporosaura anchietæ, new combination, p. 117).

延伸閱讀

  • Arnold EN (1989). "Towards a phylogeny and biogeography of the Lacertidae: relationships within an Old-World family of lizards derived from morphology". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology 55 (2): 209–257. (Meroles anchietae, new combination).
  • Bocage JVB (1867). "Descriptions of two new Saurians from Mossamedes (West Africa)". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Third Series 20: 225–228. (Pachyrhynchus anchietæ, new species, pp. 227–228, Figures 1–2).
  • Loveridge A (1936). "African Reptiles and Amphibians in the Field Museum of Natural History". Zoological Series, Field Museum of Natural History 22 (1): 1–122. (Aporosaura anchietae, p. 63).