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Mertens' snake-eyed skink |
Roper Bar, Northern Territory Photo © Stewart Macdonald |
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Cryptoblepharus mertensi | ||||||||
Pronunciation | KRIP-toe-BLEFF-ah-russ | |||||||
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Etymology |
Cryptoblepharus: 'hidden eyelid', referring to the fused eyelids.
mertensi: "Named for the late Professor Robert Mertens, former curator at the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Cryptoblepharus taxonomy."1 |
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