Pseudemoia pagenstecheri (LINDHOLM, 1901)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Southern Grass Tussock Skink, Southern Tussock Grass Skink
Synonym	Lygosoma (Liolepisma) pagenstecheri LINDHOLM 1901 Leiolopisma entrecasteauxii — COGGER 1983: 168 Eulepis entrecasteauxii —WELLS & WELLINGTON 1983: 94 Claireascincus jenkinsi WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 25 Claireascincus schumacki WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 25 Claireascincus wardi WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 26 Pseudemoia pagenstecheri — HUTCHINSON & DONNELLAN 1992 Pseudemoia pagenstecheri — COGGER 2000: 765 Claireascincus pagenstecheri — GREER 2005 (online) Pseudemoia pagenstecheri — KÖHLER & GÜSTEN 2007
Distribution	Australia (higher mountain ranges of NE Victoria; according to map in Cogger 1994 also in E New South Wales and on Tasmania) Type locality: probably South Australia
Reproduction	ovovivparous<br><br>Hybridization: Pseudemoia cryodroma, P. entrecasteauxii and P. pagenstecheri hybridise (Haines et al. 2016).
Types	Neotype: NMV D50902, an adult male, 9-6 km ESE of Rockbank (37°44'S, 144°39'E), Victoria, collected on 8 July 1977, by M. Hutchinson and G. Brow, designated by Hutchinson & Donnellan 1992. Holotype originally in WNS = MWNH, lost when forwarded to platemaker in Frankfurt (Rawlinson, cited by Cogger 1983), from '?Süd-Australien".
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: HUTCHINSON & DONNELLAN 1992: 240
Comment	Synonymy: mostly after HUTCHINSON & DONNELLAN 1992. Distribution: map in HUTCHINSON & DONNELLAN 1992.
Etymology	Named after Dr. Heinrich Alexander Pagenstecher (1825-1889), a physician, zoologist, and comparative anatomist. He taught at the Universitat Heidelberg (1856), before becoming Professor of Zoology there (1865).
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp. Couper, P., Covacevich, J., Amey, A. & Baker, A. 2006. The genera of skinks (Family Scincidae) of Australia and its island territories: diversity, distribution and identification. in: Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G.M. & Lee, M.S.Y. (eds.). Evolution and Zoogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, pp. 367-384 Eldridge, M. D. B., S. Ingleby, A. G. King, S. V. Mahony, H. E. Parnaby, C. A. Beatson, A. Divljan, G. J. Frankham, A. C. Hay, R. E. Major, S. E. Reader, R. A. Sadlier, and L. R. Tsang. 2020. Australian Museum surveys of the vertebrate fauna of Coolah Tops National Park, NSW. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online 30: 1–26 - get paper here Haines, M L; J Melville, J Sumner, N Clemann, D G Chapple and D Stuart-Fox 2016. Geographic variation in hybridisation and ecological differentiation between three syntopic, morphologically similar species of montane lizards. Molecular Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/mec.13652 - get paper here Hutchinson M N. DONNELLAN S C. 1992. Taxonomy and genetic variation in the Australian lizards of the genus Pseudemoia (Scincidae Lygosominae). Journal of Natural History 26 (1): 215-264. - get paper here Köhler, J. & Güsten, R. 2007. Herpetological type specimens in the natural history collections of the museums in Darmstadt and Wiesbaden, Germany. Spixiana 30 (2): 275-288 - get paper here Lindholm, W. A. 1901. Bemerkungen und Beschreibung einer neuen Eidechsensart versehen von W. A. Lindholm. In: Lampe, E., Catalog der Reptilien-Sammlung (Schildkröten, Crocodile, Eidechsen und Chamaeleons) des Naturhist. Museums zu Wiesbaden. Jahrb. Nassau Ver. Naturk. 54: 177-222 - get paper here Stewart, James R. and Tom W. Ecay 2010. Patterns of maternal provision and embryonic mobilization of calcium in oviparous and viviparous squamate reptiles. Herp. Cons. Biol. 5 (2) - get paper here Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp. Thompson, M.B. & J.R. Stewart 1994. Egg and Clutch Size of the Viviparous Australian Skink, Pseudemoia pagenstecheri and the Identity of Species with Type III Allantoplacentae Journal of Herpetology 28 (4): 519-521. - get paper here Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/scincidae.pdf http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics/lizards/images/pagelive1.htm http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics/lizards/images/pagelive2.htm http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/BHAN-55J2K3?open http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Pseudemoia… Google images

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