Pinoyscincus mindanensis (TAYLOR, 1915)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Mindanao Sphenomorphus
Synonym	Sphenomorphus mindanensis TAYLOR 1915: 99 Sphenomorphus mindanensis — TAYLOR 1922 Sphenomorphus mindanensis — BROWN & ALCALA 1980: 174 Sphenomorphus mindanensis — BROWN 1995 Sphenomorphus mindanensis — LINKEM et al. 2010 Pinoyscincus mindanensis — LINKEM, DIESMOS & BROWN 2011
Distribution	Philippines (Mindanao, Leyte, Bohol) Type locality: Argusan, Mindanao
Reproduction	oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: lost, originally BSMP 1690, Bunauan, Agusan Province, Mindanao, collected E.H. Taylor, ix.1912; lost fide BROWN & ALCALA 1980.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: “Frontoparietal divided ; interparietal present ; lower eyelid scaly; 32 scales around the body; ear opening much smaller than eye opening; adpressed limbs barely touching.” (Taylor 1915: 99) Additional details (2055 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Beukema, W. 2011. Herpetofauna of disturbed forest fragments on the lower Mt. Kitanglad Rnage, Mindanao Isand, Philippines. Salamandra 47 (2): 90-98 - get paper here 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, Walter C.; Alcala, Angel C. 1970. The zoogeography of the herpetofauna of the Philippine Islands, a fringing archipelago. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 38 (6): 105-130 - 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. Linkem, C.W.; Diesmos, A.C.; Brown, R.M. 2010. A NEW SPECIES OF SCINCID LIZARD (GENUS SPHENOMORPHUS) FROM PALAWAN ISLAND, PHILIPPINES. Herpetologica 66 (1): 67–79 - 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 Sanguila MB, Cobb KA, Siler CD, Diesmos AC, Alcala AC, Brown RM 2016. The amphibians and reptiles of Mindanao Island, southern Philippines, II: the herpetofauna of northeast Mindanao and adjacent islands. ZooKeys 624: 1–132, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.624.9814 - get paper here Taylor, E.H. 1915. New species of Philippine lizards. Philippine Journal of Science. 10: 89-109 - get paper here Taylor, E.H. 1922. The lizards of the Philippine Islands. Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bureau of Science, Government of the Philippine Islands, Manila, Publication no. 17: 269 pp. - get paper here Toledo-Bruno, Angela Grace; Daryl G. Macas, Dave P. Buenavista, Michael Arieh P. Medina, Ronald Regan C. Forten 2017. Amphibian and reptile diversity in Mt. Kalatungan Range Natural Park, Philippines. Environmental and Experimental Biology 15: 127–135, DOI: 10.22364/eeb.15.11 - 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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