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Sphenomorphus loriae (BOULENGER, 1898)

IUCN Red List - Sphenomorphus loriae - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLygosoma loriae BOULENGER 1898: 698
Lygosoma loriae — DE ROOIJ 1915: 215
Lygosoma loriae — KINGHORN 1928: 292
Sphenomorphus loriae — GREER & SHEA 2004
Sphenomorphus loriae — GOLDBERG 2023 
DistributionPapua New Guinea

Type locality: New Guinea (Moroka in Bartholomew Range
2300 feet elevation).  
Reproduction 
TypesSyntype: BMNH 1946.8.3.39 (formerly 97.12.10.26), Moroka, British New Guinea, collected L. Loria; MSNG 29114 (n = 2), Moroka, collected L. Loria. 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Lamberto Loria (1855-1913), Italian ethnologist who collected in New Guinea (1889-1890). 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1898. An account of the reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. L. Loria in British New Guinea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 18: 694—710 [1897?] - get paper here
  • de Rooij, N. de 1915. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 384 pp. - get paper here
  • Goldberg, Stephen R. 2023. Anmerkungen zur Fortpflanzung von Sphenomorphus loriae (Squamata: Scincidae) aus Papua-Neuguinea. Sauria 45 (3): 61-62
  • Greer, A.E. & Shea, G. 2004. A new character within the taxonomically difficult Sphenomorphus group of Lygosomine skinks, with a description of a new species from New Guinea. Journal of Herpetology 38 (1): 79-87 - get paper here
  • Greer, Allen E.; Shea, Glenn. 2003. Secondary Temporal Scale Overlap Pattern: A Character of Possible Broad Systematics Importance in Sphenomorphine Skinks. Journal of Herpetology 37 (3): 545-549 - get paper here
  • Kinghorn, J. R. 1928. Notes on Some Reptiles and Batrachians from the Northern Division of Papua, With Descriptions of New Species of Apisthocalamus and Lygosoma. Rec. Austral. Mus. 16: 289-293. - get paper here
 
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