Tetradactylus eastwoodae

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	REPTILIA	SQUAMATA	GERRHOSAURIDAE

Scientific Name:

Tetradactylus eastwoodae

Species Authority:

Methuen & Hewitt, 1913

Common Name/s:

English

–

Eastwood's Longtailed Seps, Eastwood's Whip Lizard

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 2.3

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Reviewer/s:

Justification:
A small lizard known only from two specimens collected at the type locality in 1912 or 1913. Despite several seraches no additional specimens have been found. The type locality is under (alien) pine plantations and it is probable that the species is extinct.

History:

1994

–

Extinct? (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Known only from the type locality near Woodbush, Limpopo Province. Searches have also been conducted in the Haenertsburg and Wolkberg areas.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: South Africa (Limpopo Province)

Population [top]

Population:	Known only from the type locality.

Population:

Known only from the type locality.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Presumed to have inhabited open montane grassland.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Afforestation with alien pine species and excessive burning of the the montane grassland habitat may have caused or contributed to the disappearance of this species.

Major Threat(s):

Afforestation with alien pine species and excessive burning of the the montane grassland habitat may have caused or contributed to the disappearance of this species.

Bibliography [top]

	Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland. Branch, W.R. (ed.) 1988. South African Red Data Book – Reptiles and Amphibians. South African National Scientific Programmes Report No 151. Foundation for Research and Development, CSIR, Pretoria. Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.

Branch, W.R. (ed.) 1988. South African Red Data Book – Reptiles and Amphibians. South African National Scientific Programmes Report No 151. Foundation for Research and Development, CSIR, Pretoria.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Tetradactylus eastwoodae. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2012.
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