Delalande's skink explained

Chioninia delalandii (English: Delalande's skink) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Cape Verde Islands.

Etymology

The species is named after French naturalist Pierre Antoine Delalande.^[1]

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Scincidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Mabuia delalandii, pp. 158–159).
• Mausfeld, Patrick; Schmitz, Andreas; Böhme, Wolfgang; Misof, Bernhard; Vrcibradic, Davor; Rocha, Carlos Frederico Duarte (2002). "Phylogenetic Affinities of Mabuya atlantica Schmidt, 1945, Endemic to the Atlantic Ocean Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha (Brazil): Necessity of Partitioning the genus Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826 (Scincidae: Lygosominae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger 241: 281–293. (Chioninia delalandii, new combination).

Notes and References

1. Book: Beolens, Bo. Watkins, Michael. Grayson, Michael. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Mabuya delalandii, p. 68).