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Ctenotus schevilli (LOVERIDGE, 1933)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Black-soil Rises Ctenotus 
SynonymSphenomorphus schevilli LOVERIDGE 1933
Ctenotus schevilli — COGGER 1983: 152
Ctenotus schevilli — COGGER 2000: 441
Ctenotus schevilli — WILSON & SWAN 2010 
DistributionAustralia (Queensland)

Type locality: Army Downs, near Richmond, Qld.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: MCZ 35446, QM J5805 
Diagnosis 
CommentLimb morphology: 5 digits, 5 toes (Singhal et al. 2018, Cogger 2014) 
EtymologyNamed after William Edward Schevill (1906-1994), a cetologist and biologist who was the Librarian of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at Harvard (1938). Schevill was the collector of the species, and was a member of the expedition which collected the material in the paper by Loveridge. At that time, he was a graduate student. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here
  • Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp.
  • Couper, P., Covacevich, J., Amey, A. & Baker, A. 2006. The genera of skinks (Family Scincidae) of Australia and its island territories: diversity, distribution and identification. in: Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G.M. & Lee, M.S.Y. (eds.). Evolution and Zoogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, pp. 367-384
  • Czechura, G.V. 1986. Skinks of the Ctenotus schevilli species group. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 22: 289-297 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1933. New scincid lizards of the genera Sphenomorphus, Rhodona and Lygosoma from Australia. Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 8: 95-100
  • Singhal, Sonal; Huateng Huang, Maggie R. Grundler, María R. Marchán-Rivadeneira, Iris Holmes, Pascal O. Title, Stephen C. Donnellan, and Daniel L. Rabosky 2018. Does Population Structure Predict the Rate of Speciation? A Comparative Test across Australia’s Most Diverse Vertebrate Radiation. The American Naturalist - get paper here
  • Storr G M 1978. Notes on the Ctenotus (Lacertilia, Scincidae) of Queensland. Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 6 (3): 319-332 - get paper here
  • Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
 
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