Parvoscincus palawanensis (BROWN & ALCALA, 1961)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Lygosoma (Sphenomorphus) palawanensis BROWN & ALCALA 1961 Sphenomorphus palawanensis — BROWN & ALCALA 1980: 164 Parvoscincus palawanensis FERNER, BROWN & GREER 1997 Parvoscincus palawanensis — BROWN et al. 1999 Parvoscincus palawanensis — LINKEM et al. 2010 Parvoscincus palawanensis — LINKEM, DIESMOS & BROWN 2011
Distribution	Philippines (Palawan: Victoria range) Type locality: Central Peak area, Palawan Islands, Philippines.
Reproduction	oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: CAS-SUR 23122
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1505 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Parvoscincus palawanensis is similar to Sphenomorphus and may be closely related to the genus, but is very different from the other species on the island due to its reduced size, lack of prefrontals, and scaled-over ear (Ferner et al. 1997). Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024.
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Brown, R.M. et al. 2010. Species boundaries in Philippine montane forest skinks (Genus Sphenomorphus): three new species from the mountains of Luzon and clarification of the status of the poorly known S. beyeri, S. knollmanae, and S. laterimaculatus. Scient. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas (42): 1-27 Brown, Rafe M., Jimmy A. McGuire, John W. Ferner and Angel C. Alcala 1999. New species of diminutive scincid lizard (Squamata: Lygosominae: Sphenomorphus) from Luzon Island, Republic of the Philippines. Copeia 1999 (2): 362-370 - get paper here Brown, W.C. & Alcala,A.C. 1961. A new sphenomorpid lizard from Palawan Island, Philippines. Occ. Pap. Cal. Acad. Sci. (32): 1-4 - get paper here Brown, WC. & A.C. ALCALA 1980. Philippine Lizards of the family Scincidae. Silliman Univ. Nat. Sci., Dumaguete City, Mon., Ser. 2: i-xi + 1-246. Ferner,J.W., Brown,R.M. & Greer,A.E. 1997. A new genus and species of moist closed canopy forest skinks from the Philippines. Journal of Herpetology 31 (2): 187-192 - get paper here Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - get paper here Linkem, Charles W.; Arvin C. Diesmos, Rafe M. Brown 2011. Molecular systematics of the Philippine forest skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Sphenomorphus): testing morphological hypotheses of interspecific relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 1217–1243 - 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 - get paper here Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
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