Prasinohaema prehensicauda (LOVERIDGE, 1945)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Prehensile Green Tree Skink
Synonym	Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) prehensicauda LOVERIDGE 1945 Scincella prehensicauda — WOODRUFF 1972 Prasinohaema prehensicauda — GREER 1974 Prasinohaema prehensicauda — PIANKA & VITT 2003 Prasinohaema prehensicauda — KRAUS 2013 Prasinohaema prehensicauda — SLAVENKO et al. 2021
Distribution	Papua New Guinea (Milne Bay Prov.: E slope Mt. Suckling, Sota, 9.7580°S, 149.1822°E, 1860 m elevation; Mt. Kaindi, Owen Stanley Range) (Kraus 2013, Gressitt and Nadkarni 1978) Type locality: “between 7500-8000 feet on Mount Wilhelm, Bismarck Range, Madang Division, New Guinea” (elevation)
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 47057
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Referable to the section 'Leiolopisma as redefined by Malcolm Smith (1987, Rec. Indian Mus., 39, p. 223) in his section B.b., though snout might well be called subacuminate. Related, though not closely except in scale-counts, to L. anoliB (Boulenger) of the Solomons. L. prehenaicauda is a larger, stouter species with a blunter, less acuminate, snout than that of anolia; the toes o( the adpressed hind limb are widely separated from the fingers of the backward pressed forelimb, certainly not reaching to the elbow as in the slender-limbed anolia. The parietals are well separated by the interparietal; there are no definite nuchals; the dorsals are striated, not smooth; and the peculiar subcaudal scalation of prehensicauda is lacking in our extensive series of anolia. In the following description paratype variations are given in parentheses (Loveridge 1945: 48). Additional details (3751 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
References	Austin,C.C. and K. W. Jessing 1994. Green-blood pigmentation in lizards. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 109A (3): 619-626 - get paper here Greer, A.E. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 1-67. - get paper here Kraus, Fred 2010. COLOUR-PATTERN POLYMORPHISM IN LIZARDS OF THE GENUS PRASINOHAEMA (SQUAMATA: SCINCIDAE). Herpetofauna 40 (1): 30-36 Kraus, Fred. 2013. Further range extensions for reptiles and amphibians from Papua New Guinea. Herpetological Review 44 (2): 277-280 - get paper here Loveridge, Arthur 1945. New scincid lizards of the genera Tropidophorus and Lygosoma from New Guinea. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 58: 47-52 - get paper here Woodruff, D.S. 1972. Amphibians and reptiles from Simbai, Bismarck-Schrader Range, New Guinea. Mem. Nat. Mus. Vict. 33: 57-64 - get paper here
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