Tytthoscincus sanana (KOPSTEIN, 1926)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Lygosoma sanana KOPSTEIN 1926: 97 Lygosoma (Siaphos) sanana KOPSTEIN 1927: 441 Lygosoma sanana — BRONGERSMA 1933: 20 Sphenomorphus sananus — GREER et al. 2006 Tytthoscincus sananus — GRISMER et al. 2018 Sphenomorphus sanana — CHAPPLE et al. 2021 Sphenomorphus sanana — CHAPPLE et al. 2023 Tytthoscincus sananus — CHAPPLE et al. 2025
Distribution	Indonesia (Sula Islands) Type locality: Sanana, Sula Islands
Reproduction
Types	Syntypes: RMNH 5102, 5508, collected F. Kopstein, iii.1924.
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Comment	Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). CHAPPLE et al. 2025 in an internal memo of the Skink Specialist Group accepted that the species is in Tytthoscincus. It seems that Kopstein described this species as new in two different papers with largely identical descriptions. However, in 1926 he mentions 2 specimens, in 1927 he only mentions 1.
References	Brongersma, L.D. 1933. Herpetological Notes I-IX. Zoologische Mededelingen 16 (1/2): 1-29 - get paper here Chapple, D. G., Slavenko, A., Tingley, R., Farquhar, J. E., Camaiti, M., Roll, U., & Meiri, S. 2023. Built for success: Distribution, morphology, ecology and life history of the world's skinks. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e10791 - get paper here Chapple, David G; Roll, Uri; Böhm, Monika; Aguilar, Rocío Amey, Andrew P Austin, Chris C Baling, Marleen Barley, Anthony J Bates, Michael F Bauer, Aaron M Blackburn, Daniel G Bowles, Phil Brown, Rafe M Chandramouli, S R Chirio, Laurent Cogger, Hal Co 2021. Conservation Status of the World’s Skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and Geographic Patterns in Extinction Risk. Biological Conservation 257: 109101 - get paper here Greer, A.; David, P. & Teynié, A. 2006. The Southeast Asian scincid lizard Siaphos tridigitus Bourret, 1939 (Reptilia, Scincidae): a second specimen. Zoosystema 28 (3) : 785-790 GRISMER, L. LEE; PERRY L. JR. WOOD, AMIRRUDIN B. AHMAD, B. S. BAIZUL-HAFSYAM, M. AFIQ-SHUHAIMI, SYED A. RIZAL, EVAN S. H. QUAH 2018. Two new Tytthoscincus Linkem, Diesmos, & Brown (Squamata; Scincidae) from Peninsular Malaysia and another case of microsyntopy between ecologically specialized, unrelated, leaf-litter species. Zootaxa 4425 (1): 087–107 - get paper here Kopstein, F. 1927. Die Reptilienfauna der Sula-Inseln. Treubia 9: 437—446 - get paper here Kopstein,P.F. 1926. Reptilien von den Molukken und den benachbarten Inseln. Zoologische Mededelingen 1: 71-112 - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here
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