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Sphenomorphus malaisei (RENDAHL, 1937)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLygosoma malaisei RENDAHL 1937: 7
Sphenomorphus malaisei — SHEA 2017 (pers. comm.) 
DistributionMyanmar

Type locality: “Birma” (unspecified locality)  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: NRM 3962 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2583 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentGlenn Shea (pers. comm., 16 Apr 2017) has examined the holotype, in which “the lower eyelid (though somewhat damaged) is certainly scaly, lacking a window, the median preanals are enlarged and laterally overlap the lateral preanals, and there are no supranasals, so that would make it (on current taxonomy) a Sphenomorphus”.

Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024. 
EtymologyNamed after entomologist “cand. phil. René Malaise” (29 September 1892 – 1 July 1978) who brought the specimens from Myanmar to Stockholm.
 
References
  • 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
  • Rendahl,H. 1937. Beiträge zur Herpetologie von Birma. Arkiv för Zoologi 29A (10): 1-29
 
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