Bachia

Bachia is a genus of lizards that belong to the spectacled lizards family.[1]

"Bachia" as described by Förster in 1869 is now the gelinine wasp genus Bachiana.

Bachia
Bachia bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gymnophthalmidae
Tribe:	Bachini
Genus:	Bachia Gray, 1845

Species

The genus Bachia consists of 31[2] species:

• Bachia alleni (Barbour, 1914)
• Bachia barbouri (C.E. Burt & M.D. Burt, 1931) - Barbour's bachia
• Bachia beebei Murphy, Salvi, Santos, Braswell, Charles, Borzee, & Jowers, 2019
• Bachia bicolor (Cope, 1896) - two-colored bachia
• Bachia blairi (Dunn, 1940)
• Bachia bresslaui (Amaral, 1935) - Bresslau's bachia
• Bachia cacerensis (Castrillon & Strüssman, 1998)
• Bachia didactyla (de Freitas, Strüssmann, M. de Carvalho, Kawashita-Ribeiro & Mott, 2011)
• Bachia dorbignyi (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) - Dorbigny's bachia
• Bachia flavescens (Bonnaterre, 1789)
• Bachia geralista Teixeira, Recoder, Camacho, de Sena, Navas & Rodrigues, 2013[3]
• Bachia guianensis Hoogmoed & Dixon, 1977 - Guyana bachia
• Bachia heteropa (Wiegmann, 1856) - LaGuaira bachia
• Bachia huallagana Dixon, 1973 - Dixon's bachia
• Bachia intermedia Noble, 1921 - Noble's bachia
• Bachia lineata (Boulenger, 1903)
• Bachia marcelae (Donoso-Barros, 1968)
• Bachia micromela Rodrigues, Pavan & Curcio, 2007[4]
• Bachia oxyrhina Rodrigues, Camacho, Sales Nunes, Sousa Recoder, Teixeira Jr., Valdujo, Ghellere, Mott & Nogueira, 2008[5]
• Bachia pallidiceps (Cope, 1862) - Cope's bachia
• Bachia panoplia Thomas, 1965
• Bachia peruana (F. Werner, 1901) - Peru bachia
• Bachia psamophila Rodrigues, Pavan & Curcio, 2007[4]
• Bachia pyburni Kizirian & McDiarmid, 1998
• Bachia remota Ribeiro-Júnior, da Silva & Lima, 2016
• Bachia scaea Teixeira et al., 2013
• Bachia scolecoides (Vanzolini, 1961) - Vanzolini's bachia
• Bachia talpa (Ruthven, 1925) - Ruthven's bachia
• Bachia trinitatis (Barbour, 1914) - Trinidad bachia, Trinidad worm lizard
• Bachia trisanale (Cope, 1868) - Stacy's bachia
• Bachia whitei Murphy, Salvi, Santos, Braswell, Charles, Borzee, & Jowers, 2019 - White's bachia

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Bachia.

References

1. Bachia. Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved: 2011-03029
2. "Bachia". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
3. Teixeira, Mauro Jr.; Recoder, Renato Sousa; Camacho, Agustín; de Sena, Marco Aurélio; Navas, Carlos Arturo; Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut (2013). "A new species of Bachia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Eastern Brazilian Cerrado, and data on its ecology, physiology and behavior". Zootaxa. 3616 (2): 173–189. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3616.2.6. PMID 24758802.
4. Rodrigues MT, Pavan D, Curcio FF (2007). "Two New Species of Lizards of the Genus Bachia (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from Central Brazil". Journal of Herpetology 41 (4): 545–553.
5. Rodrigues MT et al. (2008). "A new species of the lizard genus Bachia (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Cerrados of Central Brazil". Zootaxa 1875: 39-50. (Bachia oxyrhina, new species). http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01875p050f.pdf

Further reading

• Dixon JR (1973). "A Systematic Review of the Teiid Lizards, Genus Bachia, with Remarks on Heterodactylus and Anotosaura ". Misc. Publ. Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. (57): 1-47.
• Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Bachia, new genus, p. 58).