| Ablepharus budaki | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Ablepharus |
| Species: | A. budaki |
| Binomial name | |
| Ablepharus budaki Göçmen, Kumlutas & Tosunoglu, 1996 | |
Ablepharus budaki, commonly known as Budak's snake-eyed skink, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Near East.
Taxonomy
A. budaki is a scincine saurian vertebrate. In 1997, it was promoted from its status as a subspecies of Ablepharus kitaibelii to full species status.
Etymology
The specific name, budaki, is in honor of Turkish herpetologist Abidin Budak.[2]
Geographic range
A. budaki occurs in southern Turkey, western Syria, Cyprus, and Lebanon.
Habitat
The preferred habitat of A. budaki is leaf litter of shrubby or forested areas.
Conservation status
A. budaki is common and has no major threats in most of its range, though in Lebanon it may face a threat from deforestation.
References
- ^ Lymberakis P, Crochet P-A, Tok V, Ugurtas I, Sevinç M, Hraoui-Bloquet S, Sadek R (2006). "Ablepharus budaki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006. Retrieved 18 February 2009.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Ablepharus budaki, p. 42).
Further reading
- Göçmen B, Kumlutas Y, Tosunoglu M (1996). "A new subspecies, Ablepharus kitaibelii (Bibron & Borry, 1833) budaki n. ssp. (Sauria: Scincidae) from the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus". Turkish Journal of Zoology 20: 397–405.
- Poulakakis N, Lymberakis P, Tsigenopoulos CS, Magoulas A, Mylonas M (2005). "Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of snake-eyed skink Ablepharus kitaibelii (Sauria: Scincidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34: 245–256.
- Schmidtler JF (1997). "Die Ablepharus kitaibelii - Gruppe in Süd-Anatolien und benachbarten Gebieten (Squamata: Sauria: Scinidae)". Herpetozoa 10 (1/2): 35–63. (in German).