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''Sauromalus slevini'', also known as the Monserrat chuckwalla, is a species of chuckwalla belonging to the Iguanidae family. ''S. slevini'' is native to three small islands in the Sea of Cortés. ==Taxonomy and etymology== The generic name, ''Sauromalus'', is a combination of two Ancient Greek words: σαῦρος (''sauros'') meaning "lizard" and ομαλυς (''omalus'') meaning "flat". Its specific name, ''slevini'', is a latinized form of the surname of American zoologist Joseph Richard Slevin (1881-1957), who was Curator of Herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences from 1928 to 1957.〔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. (''Sauromalus slevini'', p. 245).〕 The species was first described by American herpetologist John Van Denburgh in 1922.〔Van Denburgh, John (1922). The Reptiles of Western North America. Volume I. Lizards and Volume II. Snakes and Turtles. ''Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences'' 10: 1–612; 613-1028. (''Sauromalus slevini'', new species, p. 97).〕 The common name, "chuckwalla", derives from the Shoshone word, ''tcaxxwal'', or the Cahuilla word, ''caxwal'', transcribed by Spaniards as ''chacahuala''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sauromalus slevini」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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