Ablepharus budaki

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Scincomorpha
Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Eugongylinae
Genus: Ablepharus
Species: Ablepharus budaki
Subspecies: A. b. anatolicus – A. b. budaki

Name

Ablepharus budaki Göçmen, Kumlutas & Tosunoglu, 1996
References

IUCN: Ablepharus budaki Göçmen, Kumlutas and Tosunoglu, 1996 (Least Concern)
Ablepharus budaki at the New Reptile Database

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 [tr].[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.H.; Sevinç, M.; Hraoui-Bloquet, S.; Sadek, R.; Kaska, Y.; Kumlutaş, Y.; Kaya, U.; Avci, A.; Üzüm, N.; Yeniyurt, C.; Akarsu, F. (2009). "Ablepharus budaki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T61450A12488080. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T61450A12488080.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.

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).

Reptiles of Cyprus