Ablepharus budaki

Ablepharus budaki, commonly known as Budak's skink and Budak's snake-eyed skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Near East.

Ablepharus budaki
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Ablepharus
Species:	A. budaki
Binomial name
Ablepharus budaki Göçmen, Kumlutaş & Tosunoglu, 1996
Synonyms[2]
Ablepharus kitaibelii budaki Göçmen, Kumlutas & Tosunoglu, 1996 Ablepharus budaki — J.F. Schmidtler, 1997

Taxonomy

A. budaki is a scincid saurian vertebrate. In 1997, it was promoted from its status as a subspecies of Ablepharus kitaibelii to full species status.^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, budaki, is in honor of Turkish herpetologist Abidin Budak [tr].^[3]

Geographic range

A. budaki occurs in southern Turkey, western Syria, Cyprus, and Lebanon.^[1]

Habitat

The preferred habitat of A. budaki is leaf litter of shrubby or forested areas.^[1]

Reproduction

A. budaki is oviparous.^[1][2]

Conservation status

A. budaki is common and has no major threats in most of its range, though in Lebanon it may face a threat from deforestation.^[1]

References

1. Lymberakis P, Crochet P-A, Tok V, Ugurtas IH, Sevinç M, Hraoui-Bloquet S, Sadek R, Kaska Y, Kumlutaş Y, Kaya U, Avci A, Üzüm N, Yeniyurt C, Akarsu F (2009). "Ablepharus budaki ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T61450A12488080. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T61450A12488080.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. Species Ablepharus budaki at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Ablepharus budaki, p. 42).

Further reading

• Göçmen B, Kumlutaş Y, Tosunoglu M (1996). "A new subspecies, Ablepharus kitaibelii (Bibron & Borry, 1833) budaki n. ssp. (Sauria: Scincidae) from the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus". Turkish Journal of Zoology 20: 397–405. (Ablepharus kitaibelii budaki, new subspecies).
• Poulakakis N, Lymberakis P, Tsigenopoulos CS, Magoulas A, Mylonas M (2005). "Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of snake-eyed skink Ablepharus kitaibelii (Sauria: Scincidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34 (2): 245–256.
• Schmidtler JF (1997). "Die Ablepharus kitaibelii - Gruppe in Süd-Anatolien und benachbarten Gebieten (Squamata: Sauria: Scinidae)". Herpetozoa 10 (1/2): 35–63. (Ablepharus budaki, new status). (in German).
• Sindaco R, Jeremčenko VK (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. ISBN 978-88-89504-14-7.