Sphenodon guntheri Buller, 1877
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Buller, W. L. Notes on the tuatara lizard (Sphenodon punctatum), with a description of a supposed new species.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Sphenodontia
- family
- Sphenodontidae
- genus
- Sphenodon
- species
- Sphenodon punctatus
Name
- Homonyms
- Sphenodon guntheri Buller, 1877
- Common names
- Brothers Island tuatara in language.
Bibliographic References
- Daugherty, C. H., A. Cree, J. M. Hay, and M. B. Thompson, 1990: Neglected taxonomy and continuing extinctions of tuatara (Sphenodon). Nature, vol. 347, no. 6289. 177-179.
- Hay, Jennifer M., Stephen D. Sarre, David M. Lambert, Fred W. Allendorf, and Charles H. Daugherty, 2010: Genetic diversity and taxonomy: a reassessment of species designation in tuatara (Sphenodon: Reptilia). Conservation Genetics, vol. 11, no. 3. 1063-1081.