Bachia Explained

"Bachia" as described by Förster in 1869 is now the cryptine wasp genus Bachiana.

Bachia is a genus of lizards that belong to the spectacled lizards family.^[1]

Species

The genus Bachia consists of 31^[2] species:

• Bachia alleni
• Bachia barbouri - Barbour's bachia
• Bachia beebei
• Bachia bicolor - two-colored bachia
• Bachia blairi
• Bachia bresslaui - Bresslau's bachia
• Bachia cacerensis)
• Bachia didactyla)
• Bachia dorbignyi - Dorbigny's bachia
• Bachia flavescens
• Bachia geralista ^[3]
• Bachia guianensis - Guyana bachia
• Bachia heteropa - LaGuaira bachia
• Bachia huallagana - Dixon's bachia
• Bachia intermedia - Noble's bachia
• Bachia lineata
• Bachia marcelae
• Bachia micromela ^[4]
• Bachia oxyrhina ^[5]
• Bachia pallidiceps - Cope's bachia
• Bachia panoplia
• Bachia peruana - Peru bachia
• Bachia psamophila ^[4]
• Bachia pyburni
• Bachia remota
• Bachia scaea
• Bachia scolecoides) - Vanzolini's bachia
• Bachia talpa) - Ruthven's bachia
• Bachia trinitatis - Trinidad bachia, Trinidad worm lizard
• Bachia trisanale - Stacy's bachia
• Bachia whitei - White's bachia

Nota bene

A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Bachia.

Further reading

• Dixon JR (1973). "A Systematic Review of the Teiid Lizards, Genus Bachia, with Remarks on Heterodactylus and Anotosaura ". Misc. Publ. Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. (57): 1-47.
• Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Bachia, new genus, p. 58).

Notes and References

1. http://www.eol.org/pages/14590 Bachia
2. "Bachia". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
3. Teixeira. Mauro Jr.. Recoder. Renato Sousa. Camacho. Agustín. de Sena. Marco Aurélio. Navas. Carlos Arturo.

   fr:Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues

   . Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut. 2013. A new species of Bachia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Eastern Brazilian Cerrado, and data on its ecology, physiology and behavior. Zootaxa. 3616. 2. 173–189. 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.2.6. 24758802. 19312905 .
4. Rodrigues MT, Pavan D, Curcio FF (2007). "Two New Species of Lizards of the Genus Bachia (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from Central Brazil". Journal of Herpetology 41 (4): 545–553.
5. Rodrigues MT et al. (2008). "A new species of the lizard genus Bachia (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Cerrados of Central Brazil". Zootaxa 1875: 39-50. (Bachia oxyrhina, new species). http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01875p050f.pdf