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Dibamus novaeguineae DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1839

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Higher TaxaDibamidae, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymDibamus novaeguineae DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 834
Acontias subcaecus DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839 (nomen nudum)
Typhlina leucurus BLEEKER 1860
Typhlina ludekingi BLEEKER 1860
Thyphloscincus Martensii PETERS 1864: 271
Dibamus novae-guineae — BOULENGER 1897: 505
Dibamus novae-guineae — SMITH 1935: 362
Dibamus novaeguineae — GREER 1985: 149
Dibamus novaeguineae — BAUER et al. 1995: 54
Dibamus novaeguineae — DIAZ et al. 2004
Dibamus novaeguineae — DAS & LIM 2009
Dibamus novaeguineae — QUAH et al. 2017
Dibamus novaeguineae — KLIUKIN et al. 2024 
DistributionS Philippines (Cebu etc.),
Indonesia (Ternate, Komodo, Flores), Halmahera, Lembeh I., SE Sulawesi, W Papua, Morotai) New Guinea, Malaysia (Kelantan [TWEEDIE 1950])

Type locality: New Guinea
Type locality: Ternate [Indonesia] [Thyphloscincus Martensii PETERS 1864].  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: MNHN-RA 1994.0787 (formerly MNHN-RA 7156A); paralectotypse: MNHN-RA 7156 () and MNHN-RA 1994.0787 (New Guinea), designated by GREER 1985.
Syntypes: ZMB 5026, 5027 (unlocated) [Thyphloscincus Martensii]. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus). Differs from Anelytropsis, the only other genus in the family, in the following combination of derived character states: postorbital bone absent; epipterygoid absent; temporal bone (seen in Anelytropsis)absent; rib of last presacral vertebra fused or absent; tail short, 9-24 percent of SVL; subcaudal scales in females reduced to 35-61; postsacral vertebrae reduced to 21-32 in males and 17-34 in females; and right oviduct absent. Also differs in the possibly derived character state of two to five scales bordering the posteromedial edge of the infralabial (Greer 1985: 147). 
CommentGreer 1985 considered BLEEKER’s Typhlina ludekingi as “incertae sedis”.

Distribution: Erroneously reported from the Nicobar Islands (DAS 1999).

Type species: Dibamus novaeguineae DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839 is the type species of the genus Dibamus DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839.

Phylogeny: the genus Dibamus forms two deeply divergent, morphologically conserved and geographically concordant clades, one of which is the sister taxon of Anelytropsis papillosus (Townsend et al. 2011).

Synonymy: Kaiser et al. 2013 considered the generic names Dalegibbonsus Hoser 2012, Leswilliamsus Hoser 2012, Nindibamus Hoser 2012, Paulwoolfus Hoser 2012 invalid and rejected their use instead of Dibamus.

Comparisons: for a comparison of meristic and other morphological characters across Dibamus see Klliukin et al. 2023, 2024. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
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