Bachia

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata

Subordo: Lacertoidea
Superfamilia: Gymnophthalmoidea

Familia: Gymnophthalmidae
Subfamilia: Cercosaurinae
Tribus: Bachiini
Genus: Bachia
Species (21): B. alleni – B. barbouri – B. beebei – B. bicolor – B. blairi – B. bresslaui – B. cacerensis – B. didactyla – B. dorbignyi – B. flavescens – B. geralista – B. guianensis – B. heteropa – B. huallagana – B. intermedia – B. lineata – B. marcelae – B. micromela – B. oxyrhina – B. pallidiceps – B. panoplia – B. peruana – B. psamophila – B. pyburni – B. remota – B. scolecoides – B. talpa – B. trinitatis – B. trisanale – B. whitei

Name

Bachia Gray, 1845
References
Primary references

Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman: London. xxvii + 289 pp. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Teixeira Jr., M., Recoder, R.S., Camacho, A., Sena, M.A., Navas, C.A. & Rodrigues, M.T. 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 Reference page.
Teixeira Jr., M., Dal Vechio, F., Nunes, P.M.S., Mollo Neto, A., Lobo, L.M., Storti, L.F., Gaiga, R.A.J., Dias, P.H.F. & Rodrigues, M.T. 2013. A new species of Bachia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the western Brazilian Amazonia. Zootaxa 3636(3): 401–420. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3636.3.1 Reference page.
Ribeiro Jr., M.A., Silva, M.B. & Lima, J.D. 2016. A New Species of Bachia Gray 1845 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Eastern Guiana Shield. Herpetologica 72(2): 148–156. DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-15-00030 Reference page.
Murphy, J.C., Salvi, D., Santos, J.L., Braswell, A.L., Charles, S.P., Borzeé, A. & Jowers, M.J. 2019. The reduced limbed lizards of the genus Bachia (Reptilia, Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae); biogeography, cryptic diversity, and morphological convergence in the eastern Caribbean. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 19(2): 321–340. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-019-00393-4 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2021. Bachia . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 24 September 2021.

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

Bachia. Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved: 2011-03029
"Bachia". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
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.
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.

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).