Emoia arnoensis BROWN & MARSHALL, 1953

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies	Emoia arnoensis nauru BROWN 1991 Emoia arnoensis arnoensis BROWN & MARSHALL 1953
Common Names	E: Emo Skink
Synonym	Emoia arnoensis BROWN & MARSHALL 1953 Emoia arnoensis — GREER 1974: 20 Emoia arnoensis — ADLER, AUSTIN & DUDLEY 1995 Emoia arnoensis arnoensis — BUDEN 2008 Emoia arnoensis — RICHMOND et al. 2021 Emoia arnoensis nauru BROWN 1991 Emoia arnoensis nauru —SHEA 1999: 32 Emoia arnoensis nauru — BUDEN 2008
Distribution	Pacific Ocean islands: Carolines, Marshalls, Nauru, Micronesia Type locality: Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands nauru: Nauru; Type locality: Nauru Island.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 132131 HOLOTYPE: AMS R109771 [nauru]
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Comment	Distribution: see map in Richmond et al. 2021: Fig. 2.
References	Adler,G.H.; Austin,C.C. & Dudley,R. 1995. Dispersal and speciation of skinks among archipelagos in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Evolutionary Ecology 9: 529-541 - get paper here Brown W C 1991. Lizards of the genus Emoia (Scincidae) with observations on their evolution and biogeography. MEMOIRS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (No. 15) 1991: i-vi, 1-94 - get paper here Brown, Walter C. & Marshall, Joe T. 1953. New scincoid lizards from the Marshall Islands, with notes on their distribution. Copeia 1953 (4): 201-207 - get paper here Buden, D.W. 2008. The reptiles of Nauru. Paciﬁc Science 62 (4):499 – 507 - get paper here Buden, Donald W. & Danko Taboroši 2016. Reptiles of the Federated States of Micronesia. Island Research and Education Initiative, 311 pp. - get paper here Greer, A.E. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 1-67. - get paper here Richmond, J. Q., Wostl, E., Reed, R. N., & Fisher, R. N. 2021. Range eclipse leads to tenuous survival of a rare lizard species on a barrier atoll. Oryx, 1-10 - get paper here ZUG, G.R. 2013. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands. University of California Press, Berkeley, 306 pp. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://acsmith.si.edu/search/herps/search.php?action=10&irn=7010500&width… Google images

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