Emoia kitcheneri HOW, DURRANT, SMITH & SALEH, 1998

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Emoia kitcheneri HOW et al. 1998 Emoia kitcheneri — SHEA 2012
Distribution	Indonesia: Sumba Island Type locality: Ngallu, East Sumba, Indonesia (10°06'30"S and 120° 41'30''E)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: WAM R101877 (Western Australian Museum), adult male, collected by R.A. How, DJ Kitchener, N.K. Cooper, J. Dell and A. Suyanto; The type specimen is to be lodged at the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Bogor, Indonesia (MZB). Paratypes: R101830, R101859-860, R101867, R101869-875, R101878-893, R101907 data as for the holotype.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A small member of the cyanura group and caerulocauda Subgroup (sensu Brown 1991). Most like E. similis in lacking interparietals but differing in its smaller size (2-9 mm cf. 7-72 mm), more subdigital lamellae (24-1 cf. 21-2), lack of a vertebral stripe, blue tail and by having limbs that meet when adpressed against the body.
Comment
References	How, R. A., B. Durrant; L. A. Smith and Najamuddin Saleh, 1998. Emoia (Reptilia: Scincidae) from the Banda Arc islands of eastern Indonesia: variation in morphology and description of a new species. Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 19: 131-139 - get paper here Iskandar, Djoko T. and Mumpuni 2002. The herpetological type specimens in the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Collection. Hamadryad 27 (1):123-135 - get paper here Shea, G.M. 2012. (Book review) The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by B. Beolens et al Copeia 2012 (3): 578-582. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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