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Sphenomorphus woodfordi (BOULENGER, 1887)

IUCN Red List - Sphenomorphus woodfordi - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLygosoma woodfordi BOULENGER 1887: 335, 511
Sphenomorphus woodfordi — BURT & BURT 1932
Sphenomorphus woodfordi — ADLER, AUSTIN & DUDLEY 1995
Sphenomorphus transversus — MCCOY 2000 
DistributionSolomon Islands: Bougainville, Shortland Island, Fauro [= Faro], Choiseul, Ngela, Makira, Ugi.

Type locality: Fauro Island, Solomon Islands.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.8.3.24 (87.1.24.13), Faro I., Solomons, collected C.M. Woodford. 
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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Charles Morris Woodford (30 October 1852 – 4 October 1927), naturalist (and collector of the types) and colonial administrator in the British Solomon Islands.
 
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
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1887. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575 pp. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1887. Second contribution to the herpetology of the Solomon islands. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1887: 333-340 - get paper here
  • Burt, Charles E.; Burt, May Danheim 1932. Herpetological results of the Whitney South Sea Expedition. VI. Pacific island amphibians and reptiles in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 63 (5): 461-597 - get paper here
  • McCoy, M. 2000. Reptiles of the Solomon Islands. ZooGraphics, Kuranda (Australia), CD-ROM.
  • McCoy, M. 2006. Reptiles of the Solomon Islands. Pensoft Series Faunistica 57, 212 pp.
  • McCoy, M. 2015. A Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Solomon Islands. Michael McCoy, Kuranda
 
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