Loveridgea

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
Infraordo: Lacertibaenia
Cladus: Amphisbaenia

Familia: Amphisbaenidae
Genus: Loveridgea
Species:L. ionidesii - L. phylofiniens
Name
Loveridgea Vanzolini, 1951

Loveridgea is a genus of amphisbaenians in the family Amphisbaenidae. Species in the genus are commonly known as worm lizards, even though they are not lizards. Two species are placed in this genus.[1]

Etymology

The generic name, Loveridgea, is in honor of British herpetologist Arthur Loveridge.[2]

The specific name, ionidesii, is in honor of British game warden Constantine John Philip Ionides (1901–1968), who was known as the "Snake Man of British East Africa".[3]
Species

Loveridgea ionidesii (Battersby, 1950) - Liwale round-snouted worm lizard
Loveridgea phylofiniens (Tornier, 1899) - Udjiji worm lizard

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

Loveridgea at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 July 2018.
Vanzolini PE (1951). "A Systematic Arrangement of the Family Amphisbaenidae (Sauria)". Herpetologica 7 (3): 133-123. (Loveridgea, new genus).

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. (Loveridgea ionidesii, p. 130).

Further reading
Wikispecies has information related to Loveridgea.

Battersby JC (1950). "A new amphisbaenid lizard from Tanganyika territory and notes on the rare snake Chilorhinophis ". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Twelfth Series 3: 413-417. (Amphisbaena ionidesii, new species).
Gans C (2005). "Checklist and Bibliography of the Amphisbaenia of the World". Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. (289): 1-130.
Tornier G (1899). "Drei Reptilien aus Afrika ". Zoologischer Anzeiger 22 (588): 258-261. (Amphisbaena phylofiniens, new species, pp. 260–261). (in German).