Carinascincus palfreymani (RAWLINSON, 1974)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Pedra Branca Cool-skink, Red-Throated Skink
Synonym	Pseudemoia palfreymani RAWLINSON 1974 Leiolopisma palfreymani — GREER 1974 Pseudemoia palfreymani — COGGER 1983 Niveoscincus palfreymani — HUTCHINSON et al. 1990 Niveoscincus palfreymani — MELVILLE & SWAIN 2000 Niveoscincus palfreymani — COGGER 2000: 567 Pseudemoia palfreymani — GREER 2005 (online) Carinascincus palfreymani — COUPER et al. 2006: 380 Niveoscincus palfreymani — WILSON & SWAN 2013 Carinascincus palfreymani — COGGER 2014: 429 Niveoscincus palfreymani — LINDKEN et al. 2024
Distribution	Australia (Pedra Branca Rock, an islet off the southern coast of Tasmania) Type locality: Pedra Branca (as Pedra Blanca) Is., 43° 52’ S, 146° 59’ E, off southern coast of Tasmania.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: NMV D8868
Diagnosis
Comment	Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named for Audubon Eric Palfreyman (20 October 1911-1999 May), draper and sailor, first person to land on Pedra Branca Rock, where he collected the type specimens. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024)
References	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 Greer, Allen E. 1982. A new species of Leiolopisma (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Western Australia. Rec. Austral. Mus. 34 (12): 549-573 - get paper here Hutchinson M N; Donnellan S C; Baverstock P R; Krieg M; Simms S; Burgin S 1990. Immunological relationships and generic revision of the Australian lizards assigned to the genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Australian Journal of Zoology 38 (5): 535-554 - get paper here Hutchinson,M.D. & Schwaner,T.D. 1991. Genetic relationships among the Tasmanian scincid lizards of the genus Niveoscincus. Journal of Herpetology 25 (1): 49-58 - 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 Melville, Jane; Swain, Roy 2000. Evolutionary relationships between morphology, performance and habitat openness in the lizard genus Niveoscincus (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70: 667–683. - get paper here Melville,J. & SWAIN,R. 2000. Mitochondrial DNA-sequence based phylogeny and biogeography of the snow skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Niveoscincus) of Tasmania. Herpetologica 56 (2): 196-208 - get paper here Rawlinson,P.A. 1974. Revision of the endemic southeastern Australian lizard genus Pseudemoia (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Mem. Natl. Mus. Victoria 35: 87-96 - 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 http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/scincidae.pdf http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/BHAN-55JUAX?open http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Niveoscincus… Google images

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