Ctenotus eurydice CZECHURA & WOMBEY, 1982

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Brown-backed Yellow-lined Ctenotus
Synonym	Ctenotus eurydice CZECHURA & WOMBEY 1982 Ctenotus eurydice — COGGER 2000: 423 Ctenotus eurydice — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Distribution	Australia (New South Wales, Queensland) Type locality: Boonoo Boonoo Falls via Tenterfield, NSW
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: AMS (AM) R98372
Diagnosis
Comment	Limb morphology: 5 digits, 5 toes (Singhal et al. 2018, Cogger 2014) Synonymy: this is a synonym of C. taeniolatus; G. Shea (pers. comm., 5 March 2021) is unable to distinguish the two species - all of the characters proposed by Czechura & Wombey break down - they occur randomly in various combinations across the range of what are otherwise northern NSW taeniolatus.
Etymology	Named after Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus in Greek mythology. The describers say that "the name was arbitrarily chosen."
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 Czechura G V; Wombey J 1982. Three new striped skinks, (Ctenotus, Lacertilia, Scinidae) from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20 (3): 639-645 - get paper here Shea, Glenn M; Sadlier, Ross A 1999. A catalogue of the non-fossil amphibian and reptile type specimens in the collection of the Australian Museum: types currently, previously and purportedly present. TECHNICAL REPORTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM 15, 1999: 1-91 - get paper here Singhal, Sonal; Huateng Huang, Maggie R. Grundler, María R. Marchán-Rivadeneira, Iris Holmes, Pascal O. Title, Stephen C. Donnellan, and Daniel L. Rabosky 2018. Does Population Structure Predict the Rate of Speciation? A Comparative Test across Australia’s Most Diverse Vertebrate Radiation. The American Naturalist - 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.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Ctenotus/eurydice http://www.jcu.edu.au/dept/Zoology/herp/trept/geck.html Google images

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