Tracheloptychus is a small genus of lizards in the family Gerrhosauridae. The genus is endemic to Madagascar.Raselimanana A, Vences M (2011). Tracheloptychus madagascariensis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2.Rakotondravony H, Raselimanana A, Ramanamanjato J-B, Raxworthy CJ (2011). Tracheloptychus petersi. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2.
Species There are two species which are recognized as being valid.Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary. National Academy of Sciences. National Academies Press. 2005. pg. 209."Tracheloptychus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. Tracheloptychus madagascariensis – Malagasy keeled plated lizard, Madagascar girdled lizard Tracheloptychus petersi – Peters' keeled plated lizard
Etymology The specific name, petersi, is in honor of German herpetologist Wilhelm Peters, who is the author of this genus.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Tracheloptychus petersi, pp. 204-205).
References
Further reading Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Gerrhosauridæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Genus Tracheloptychus, p. 129; species T. madagascariensis, p. 129; species "T. petersii [sic]", p. 130). Grandidier A (1869). "Descriptions de quelques animaux nouveaux découverts, pendant l'année 1869, sur la côte ouest de Madagascar ". Revue et Magazine de Zoologie pure et appliquée (Paris), Series 2, 21: 337-342. (Tracheloptychus petersi, new species, pp. 339–340). (in French). Peters [W] (1854). "Diagnosen neuer Batrachier, welche zusammen mit der früher (24. Juli und 17. August) gegebenen Übersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden ". Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1854: 614-628. (Tracheloptychus, new genus, p. 617; T. madagascariensis, new species, pp. 617–618). (in German and Latin).