Kadal ekor-keriting
| Kadal ekor-keriting | |
|---|---|
| Leiocephalus carinatus | |
| Klasifikasi ilmiah | |
| Kerajaan: | Animalia |
| Filum: | Chordata |
| Kelas: | Reptilia |
| Ordo: | Squamata |
| Subordo: | Iguania |
| Klad: | Pleurodonta |
| Famili: | Leiocephalidae Frost & Etheridge, 1989 |
| Genus: | Leiocephalus Gray, 1827[1] |
Leiocephalidae, atau yang dikenal sebagai kadal ekor-keriting, adalah sebuah famili kadal Iguania yang hanya ditemukan di Hindia Barat, hanya ditemukan di Bahama, Turks dan Caicos, Kepulauan Cayman, Kuba, Hispaniola dan pulau-pulau di sekitarnya.[2][3] Salah satu ciri yang mendefinisikan kadal-kadal ini adalah ekornya yang biasa mengikal. Sebelumnya, mereka dianggap sebagai anggota famili Leiocephalinae dalam familI Tropiduridae. Saat ini, telah diketahui 30 spesies, semuanya dalam genus Leiocephalus.
Leiocephalus carinatus dan Leiocephalus schreibersii telah didatangkan ke Florida.[4]
Referensi
- ^ "Leiocepalus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de.
- ^ J., Vitt, Laurie (2014). Herpetology : an introductory biology of amphibians and reptiles. Caldwell, Janalee P. (Edisi 4th). Amsterdam. ISBN 9780123869197. OCLC 839312807. Pemeliharaan CS1: Banyak nama: authors list (link) Pemeliharaan CS1: Lokasi tanpa penerbit (link)
- ^ Hedges, B. "All Islands". CaribHerp. Diakses tanggal 2 July 2019.
- ^ Conant, R.; J.T. Collins (1998). A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America (Edisi 3). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. hlm. 244–246. ISBN 978-0395904527.
Bacaan lanjut
- Gray JE (1827). "A Description of a new Genus and some new species of Saurian Reptiles; with a Revision of the Species of Chameleons". Philosoph. Mag. Ann. Chem. Math. Astron. Nat. Hist. Gen. Sci. 2 (9): 207–214. (Leiocephalus, new genus, p. 207).
- Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Leiocephalus species, L. barahonensis – L. viniculum, pp. 126–140).
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