Sphenodon punctatus (Gray, 1842)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Gray, J. E. Description of two hitherto unrecorded species of reptiles from New Zealand; presented to the British Museum by Dr. Dieffenbach.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Sphenodontia
- family
- Sphenodontidae
- genus
- Sphenodon
- species
- Sphenodon punctatus
Name
- Synonyms
- Hatteria punctata Gray, 1842
- Sphenodon guntheri Buller, 1877
- Sphenodon punctatus reischeki Wettstein, 1943
- Homonyms
- Sphenodon punctatus (Gray, 1842)
- Common names
- Brothers Island tuatara) in language.
- Brückenechse in German
- Schnabelkopfechse in German
- Tuatara in German
- Tuatara in English
- hatteria in language.
- tuatara in language.
- tuatara in English
- tuatara in English
- Tuatara in English
- Beak-head in English
- Cook Strait Tuatara in English
- Hatteria ponctué in French
- Sphenodon in English
- Sphénodon ponctué in French
- Tuátara in Spanish
Bibliographic References
- Daugherty, C. H., A. Cree, J. M. Hay, and M. B. Thompson, 1990: Neglected taxonomy and continuing extinctions of tuatara (Sphenodon). Nature, vol. 347, no. 6289. 177-179.
- Hay, Jennifer M., Stephen D. Sarre, David M. Lambert, Fred W. Allendorf, and Charles H. Daugherty, 2010: Genetic diversity and taxonomy: a reassessment of species designation in tuatara (Sphenodon: Reptilia). Conservation Genetics, vol. 11, no. 3. 1063-1081.