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Koelliker's glass lizard

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

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| name = Koelliker's glass lizard

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |last1=Ineich |first1=I. |authorlink1=species:Ivan Ineich |last2=Crochet |first2=P-A. |authorlink2=species:Pierre-André Crochet |last3=Geniez |first3=P. |authorlink3=species:Philippe Geniez |year=2010 |title=Hyalosaurus koellikeri |volume=2010 |page=e.T61511A7206046 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T61511A7206046.en |access-date=7 October 2021 }}

| genus = Hyalosaurus

| parent_authority = Günther, 1873

| species = koellikeri

| authority = Günther, 1873

| range_map = Ophisaurus koellikeri distribution.png

| synonyms = *Hyalosaurus koellikeri
{{small|Günther, 1873}}

  • Pseudopus apus ornata
    {{small|Boettger, 1881}}
  • Ophisaurus koellikeri
    {{small|— Boulenger, 1885}}
  • Anguis koellikeri
    {{small|— Macey et al., 1999}}
  • Hyalosaurus koellikeri
    {{small|— Sindaco & Jeremčenko, 2008}}

| synonyms_ref = {{EMBL species|genus=Hyalosaurus|species=koellikeri}}. www.reptile-database.org.

}}

Koelliker's glass lizard (Hyalosaurus koellikeri), also called commonly the Moroccan glass lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Anguidae. The species is native to western North Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, koellikeri, is in honor of Swiss histologist Albert von Kölliker.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}}. (Ophisaurus koellikeri, p. 144).

Geographic range

H. koellikeri is found in Algeria and Morocco.

Habitat

The natural habitats of Koelliker's glass lizard are temperate forests, shrubland, temperate grassland, and pastureland, at altitudes up to {{convert|2,000|m|ft|abbr=on}}.

Description

H. koellikeri has no fore limbs, but does have rudimentary hind limbs. Dorsally, it is brownish, with a darker lateral band. Ventrally, it is yellowish.Boulenger (1885).

Taxonomy

H. koellikeri has often been historically included within the genus Ophisaurus, but genetic evidence has shown H. koellikeri to be more closely related to Anguis and Pseudopus than to Ophisaurus.{{cite journal |last1=Lavin |first1=Brian R. |author1-link=species:Brian R. Lavin |last2=Girman |first2=Derek J. |author2-link=species:Derek J. Girman |date=April 2019 |title=Phylogenetic relationships and divergence dating in the Glass Lizards (Anguinae) |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=133 |pages=128–140 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2018.12.022 |pmid=30584918 |hdl-access=free |hdl=10211.3/198486 |s2cid=58560490}}

Reproduction

H. koellikeri is oviparous.

Conservation status

H. koellikeri is threatened by habitat loss.

References

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Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Anguidae .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I–XXIV. (Ophisaurus koellokeri, new combination, p. 283 + Plate XV, figures 2, 2a, 2b).
  • Escoriza D, Comas MM (2011). "Nova cita de Hyalosaurus koellikeri (Squamata: Anguidae) a la regió de Debdou (Nord-est de Marroc)". Butlletí de la Societat Catalana d'Herpetologia 19: 122–124, Figures 1–2. (in Catalan, with an abstract in English).
  • Günther A (1873). "Description of a new Saurian (Hyalosaurus) allied to Pseudopus ". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fourth Series 11: 351. ("Hyalosaurus Kœllikeri ", new species).
  • Sindaco R, Jeremčenko VK (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. {{ISBN|978-88-89504-14-7}}. (Hyalosaurus koellikeri).

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Category:Anguids

Category:Reptiles described in 1873

Category:Taxa named by Albert Günther

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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