Anadia steyeri
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Anadia steyeri, also known commonly as Steyer's anadia, is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae.{{NRDB species |genus=Anadia |species= steyeri|accessdate=8 July 2019}} The species is endemic to Venezuela.
Etymology
The specific name, steyeri, is in honor of a Dr. Steyer of the Naturhistorisches Museum in Lübeck, Germany.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}}. (Anadia steyeri, p. 254).
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Reproduction
A. steyeri is oviparous.
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Further reading
- Nieden F (1914). "Beschreibung einer neuen Tejiden-Art nebst Bemerkungen über einige Kriechtiere des Naturhistorischen Museums in Lübeck ". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1914: 364–367. (Anadia steyeri, new species, pp. 365–366). (in German).
- Rivas GA, Sales Nunes PM, Dixon JR, Schargel WE, Caicedo JR, Barros TR, Camargo EG, Barrio-Amorós CL (2012). "Taxonomy, Hemipenial Morphology, and Natural History of Two Poorly Known Species of Anadia (Gymnophthalmidae) from Northern South America". Journal of Herpetology 46 (1): 33–40. (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).
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