Concinnia tigrina (DE VIS, 1888)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Yellow-blotched Forest-skink, Rainforest Water-skink
Synonym	Hinulia tigrina DE VIS 1888: 817 Sphenomorphus tigrinus — COGGER 1983: 188 Eulamprus tigrinus — COGGER 2000: 489 Eulamprus tigrinus — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Concinnia tigrinus — SKINNER et al. 2013 Concinnia tigrina — COGGER 2014: 456 Concinnia tigrina — CHAPPLE et al. 2021
Distribution	Australia (Queensland) Type locality: Innisfail (as Geraldton), Qld.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: QM J245
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy after COGGER 1983. Limb morphology: 5 digits, 5 toes (Singhal et al. 2018, Cogger 2014)
Etymology	Presumably named after the Latin tigris (tiger) plus the feminine diminutive suffix -ina, meaning a small tiger, alluding to the colour pattern of the species. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024)
References	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 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 Covacevich, J., Ingram, G. J. & Czechura, G. V. 1982. Rare frogs and reptiles of Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Biol. Conserv. 22: 283-294 - get paper here De Vis, C. W. 1888. A contribution to the herpetology of Queensland. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales (2) 2: 811-826 [1887] - get paper here 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 Skinner, Adam; Mark N. Hutchinson, Michael S.Y. Lee 2013. Phylogeny and Divergence Times of Australian Sphenomorphus Group Skinks (Scincidae, Squamata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69 (3): 906–918 - get paper here Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.jcu.edu.au/dept/Zoology/herp/wtlz/wtlz.html http://www.apsubiology.org/tnreptileatlas/frames_file.htm http://www.jcu.edu.au/dept/Zoology/herp/mosstab.html http://www.wildherps.com/species/E.tigrinus.html http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Eulamprus/tigrinus http://www.downey288.freeserve.co.uk/The%20leaf%20turtle-%20BCG.htm http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Cyclodomorphus… Google images

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