Sepsiscus pluto (INGRAM, 1977)
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Sepsiscus pluto
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Cape York Worm-skink |
| Synonym | Anomalopus (Vermiseps) pluto INGRAM 1977 Anomalopus pluto — GREER & COGGER 1985: 24 Coeranoscincus pluto — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 26 Anomalopus pluto — COGGER 2000: 385 Anomalopus pluto — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Sepsiscus pluto — HUTCHINSON et al. 2021 Suppressascincus pluto |
| Distribution | Australia (Queensland) Type locality: McDonald Crossing, Cockatoo Creek, 115 km S of Bamaga, Cape York, in 11° 33’ S, 142° 26’ E, Qld. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: QM J26261 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (genus). Body serpentiform; limbless. Eyelids moveable, scaly; ear opening absent but external ear differentiated as a vertically elongate trough with small weakly ossified scales (Fig. 3C in Hutchinson et al. 2021). Head shields (Fig. 4C); nasals separated medially, nasal fused to first supralabial; prefrontals present, small, widely separated; loreals two; supraoculars two; supraciliaries three (not in a continuous series) with the first two separated from the third by the second supraocular projecting laterally into the supraciliary row; parietal margined laterally and posteriorly by a single upper secondary temporal in contact with a single enlarged nuchal; subocular scale row much reduced; frontoparietals separate; postmental contacting a single infralabial on each side. Parietal and pulmonary peritoneum not pigmented; right oviduct absent (Greer and Cogger, 1985). |
| Comment | Limb morphology: 0 digits 0 toes (Limbless, Singhal et al. 2018, Cogger 2014) Type species: Anomalopus (Vermiseps) pluto INGRAM 1977 is the type species of the genus Sepsiscus HUTCHINSON et al. 2021. Morphology: Hutchinson et al. 2021 present a table of morphological character states across 20 Australian sphenomorphine skinks, including this genus. |
| Etymology | Named after the god of the underworld, Pluto. The genus was named after Latin seps, classically, a small but dangerous snake, but in the herpetological literature associated with limb-reduced skinks, and -iscus, a diminutive, thus ‘‘little seps.’’ |
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