| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | Sphenomorphus maindroni maindroni (SAUVAGE 1878)
Sphenomorphus maindroni wolfi (STERNFELD 1918) |
| Common Names | |
| Synonym | Lygosoma (Hinulia) maindroni SAUVAGE 1879: 54
Lygosoma (Hinulia) maindroni — DE ROOIJ 1915: 178
Lygosoma (Hinulia) maindroni wolfi STERNFELD 1918: 395
Sphenomorphus maindroni wolfi — MERTENS 1924
Lygosoma (Sphenomorphus) maindroni — SMITH 1937: 219
Sphenomorphus maindroni — GREER 1982
Sphenomorphus maindroni — GREER & SHEA 2004
Sphenomorphus wolfi — SHEA 2009 (pers. comm). |
| Distribution | Papua New Guinea, Admirality Islands, New Britain
Type locality: “Nouvelle-Guinee”
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| Reproduction | Oviparous. |
| Types | Holotype: MNHN-RA 5267 (2914b), near Haas, New Guinea, collected L. Laglaize.
Holotype: SMF 14454 (6239 1a in Mertens, 1922), Galnan, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea, collected E. Wolf, 1909 [wolfi] |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | Synonymy: Lygosoma (Hinulia) maindroni wolfi STERNFELD 1918 and Lygosoma (Otosaurus) wolfi STERNFELD 1918 (previously considered as a synonym of Sphenomorphus concinnatus) are different taxa.
wolfi: Solomon Islands (Bougainville); Terra typica: “Galnan, Admiralitäts-Inseln”. |
| Etymology | Named after Maurice Maindron (7 February 1857, Paris – 19 July 1911), French naturalist and explorer, who collected the holotype in New Guinea. (Glenn Shea, pers. comm., 2 Feb 2024) |
| 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
- Baker, Nick 2017. Sphenomorphus sp. ('S. maindroni') from Gobe, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. SEAVR 2017: 46-47 - get paper here
- Boulenger, G.A. 1887. Second contribution to the herpetology of the Solomon islands. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1887: 333-340 - get paper here
- Burt, Charles E.; Burt, May Danheim 1932. Herpetological results of the Whitney South Sea Expedition. VI. Pacific island amphibians and reptiles in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 63 (5): 461-597 - 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
- Greer A E 1982. A new species of Geomyersia (Scincidae) from the Admirality Islands, with a summary of the genus. Journal of Herpetology 16 (1): 61-66 - get paper here
- 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,A.E. & Parker,F. 1967. A new scincid lizard from the northern Solomon Islands. Breviora (275): 1-20 - get paper here
- Greer,A.E. & PARKER,F. 1967. A second skink with fragmented head scales from Bougainville, Solomon Islands. Breviora (279): 1-12 - get paper here
- Hediger, H. 1934. Beitrag zur Herpetologie und Zoogeographie Neu-Britanniens und einiger umliegender Gebiete. Zool. Jahrb. (Syst.) 65: 441-582
- Mertens, Robert 1924. Herpetologische Mitteilungen. III. Zur Nomenklatur einiger Scinciden. Senckenbergiana 6: 180-181
- Sauvage, H. E. 1879. Notice sur quelques reptiles nouveaux ou peu connus de la Nouvelle-Guinee. [Elania annulata]. Bull. Soc. philom. Paris (7) 3: 47-61 - get paper here
- Schmidt, KP 1932. Reptiles and Amphibians from the Solomon Islands. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser. - 18 (9): 175-190 - get paper here
- Smith, M.A. 1937. A review of the genus Lygosoma (Scincidae: Reptilia) and its allies. Records of the Indian Museum 39 (3): 213-234
- Sternfeld, R. 1918. Zur Tiergeographie Papuasiens und der pazifischen Inselwelt. Abh. senckenb. naturf. Ges. (Frankfurt) 36: 375-436 [missing from BHL in 2023]
- Tanner, V.M. 1951. Pacific islands herpetology, No. V. Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands: A checklist of species. Great Basin Naturalist 11: 53-86 - get paper here
- Whitaker, R.; Whitaker,Z. & Mills,D. 1982. Reptiles of Papua New Guinea. Wildlife in New Guinea (82/2): 1-53
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