铲鼻蜥(英语:Shovel-snouted lizard),通常也称为安基埃塔沙漠蜥蜴(Anchieta's desert lizard)、安基埃塔沙丘蜥蜴(Anchieta's dune lizard)和纳米比潜沙员(Namib sand-diver),是蜥蜴科中的一种蜥蜴。该物种原产于非洲南部。

铲鼻蜥
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界: 动物界 Animalia
门: 脊索动物门 Chordata
纲: 爬行纲 Reptilia
目: 有鳞目 Squamata
科: 正蜥科 Lacertidae
属: 梅洛蜥蜴属 Meroles
种:
铲鼻蜥 M. anchietae
二名法
Meroles anchietae
(Bocage, 1867)
异名[2][3]
  • Pachyrhynchus anchietæ
    Bocage, 1867
  • Aporosaura anchietæ
    Boulenger, 1887
  • Aporosaura anchietae
    Loveridge, 1936
  • Meroles anchietae
    Arnold, 1989

词源

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地理范围

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安哥拉纳米比亚被发现。[2]

栖息地

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首选自然栖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

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食性

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捕食昆虫,尤其是小甲虫。在昆虫稀少的干旱时期,它也会吃种子。

生殖

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铲鼻蜥是卵生的动物。

参考资料

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  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).

延伸阅读

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  • 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).