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Epibator greeri (BÖHME, 1979)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLeiolopisma greeri BÖHME 1979
Leiolopisma greeri — ZUG 1985
Leiolopisma greeri — SADLIER 1987: 17
Lioscincus greeri — BAUER & SADLIER 1993
Leiolopisma greeri — ADLER, AUSTIN & DUDLEY 1995
Lioscincus greeri — BAUER & SADLIER 2000
Lioscincus greeri — BÖHME 2010
Lioscincus greeri — BÖHME 2014: 154
Epibator greeri — SADLIER et al. 2015 
DistributionNew Caledonia

Type locality: Environments of Koumac, New Caledonia.  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: ZFMK 25456, no paratypes 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. Leioiopisma greeri can be distinguished from the only other species in the Leioiopisma nigrojascioiatum species group, Leioiopisma nigrojascioiatum, by: fewer paravertebral scales (74 vs 82-96); fewer lamellae beneath the fourth toe (24-27 vs 28-34); prefrontals contacting narrowly vs moderately separated-point contact. (Sadlier 1987: 17)


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CommentAbundance: 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. 
EtymologyNamed after Allen E. Greer, Australian herpetologist. 
References
  • Adler,G.H.; Austin,C.C. & Dudley,R. 1995. Dispersal and speciation of skinks among archipelagos in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Evolutionary Ecology 9: 529-541 - get paper here
  • Bauer, A. M. & SADLIER, R. A. 2000. The herpetofauna of New Caledonia. Contributions to Herpetology, 17; Society for Study Amphibians and Reptiles, Ithaca, New York.
  • Bauer, A.M. & Sadlier,R.A. 1993. Systematics, biogeography and conservation of the lizards of New Caledonia. Biodiv. Lett. 1: 107-122 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Böhme W 1979. Eine neue Art der Gattung Leiolopisma Dumeril & Bibron, 1839 aus Neukaledonien (Reptilia: Sauria: Scincidae). Salamandra 15 (3): 140-145 - get paper here
  • Böhme, Wolfgang 2014. Herpetology in Bonn. Mertensiella 21. vi + 256 pp. - 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
  • 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
  • Sadlier R A 1987. A review of the scincid lizards of New Caledonia. Rec. Austral. Mus. 39(1) 1987: 1-66 [1986] - get paper here
  • Sadlier, Ross A., AARon M. BAueR, Glenn M. sheA, and sARAh A. sMith. 2015. Taxonomic resolution to the problem of polyphyly in the New Caledonian scincid lizard genus Lioscincus (Squamata: Scincidae). Records of the Australian Museum 67(7): 207–224 - get paper here
  • Sadlier, Ross A.; Léo Debar, Mikhail Chavis, Aaron M. Bauer, Hervé Jourdan, Todd R. Jackman 2019. Epibator insularis, a New Species of Scincid Lizard from l’Île Walpole, New Caledonia. Pacific Science 73 (1): 143-161, doi:10.2984/73.1.7 - 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
  • Zug,G. R. 1985. A new skink (Reptilia: Sauria: Leiolopisma) from Fiji. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 98 (1): 221-231 - get paper here
 
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