Emoia kordoana (MEYER, 1874)
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Meyer's Emo Skink |
| Synonym | Euprepes (Mabuya) kordoanus MEYER 1874: 133 (8)
Euprepes beccari DORIA 1874
Eumeces Beccarii — SAUVAGE 1879: 53
Lygosoma iridescens BOULENGER 1897: 9
Lygosoma (Emoa) kordoanum — STERNFELD 1918: 411
Lygosoma (Emoa) iridescens — STERNFELD 1918: 415
Emoia beccarii — HEDIGER 1934
Emoia iridescens — SMITH 1937: 227
Emoia kordoana — GREER 1974: 20
Emoia beccarii — GREER 1974: 20
Emoia kordoana — MYS 1988: 134
Emoia kordoana — ADLER, AUSTIN & DUDLEY 1995 |
| Distribution | Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Admirality Islands; Celebes (fide SMITH 1937), Bismarck Archipelago
Type locality: Kordo, Mysore Island, Dutch New Guinea.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: lost or destroyed during World War II, fide Obst 1977, Brown 1991. Originally MTKD Realkatalog 307, collected A.B. Meyer, 1873.
Syntypes: MSNG 28063 [beccari] |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | E. kordoana was placed in the synonymy of E. cyanura by Boulenger (1887: 290). The name was later revived by Sternfeld (1918: 411) but was assigned to the species later recognized as E. callistica Peters and Doria. |
| Etymology | Named after the type locality. |
| References |
- Adler,G.H.; Austin,C.C. & Dudley,R. 1995. Dispersal and speciation of skinks among archipelagos in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Evolutionary Ecology 9: 529-541 - get paper here
- Boulenger,G.A. 1897. Descriptions of new lizards and frogs from Mount Victoria, Owen Stanley Range, New Guinea, collected by Mr A. S. Anthony. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 19: 6-13 - get paper here
- Brown W C 1991. Lizards of the genus Emoia (Scincidae) with observations on their evolution and biogeography. MEMOIRS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (No. 15) 1991: i-vi, 1-94 - get paper here
- Brown, W. C. 1954. Notes on several lizards of the genus Emoia, with descriptions of new species from the Solomon Islands. Fieldiana: Zoology 34: 263-276 - get paper here
- Capocaccia, L. 1961. Catalogo dei tipi di Rettili del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova [MSNG]. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Giacomo Doria 72: 86-111 - get paper here
- Goldberg, Stephen R. 2022. Notes on reproduction of Meyer’s Emo Skink, Emoia kordoana (Squamata: Scincidae), from Papua New Guinea. Sauria 44 (3): 55-56
- 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 2018. A New Species of Emoia (Squamata: Scincidae) from Papua New Guinea. Journal of Herpetology 52 (4): 430-436 - get paper here
- Meyer, A.B. 1874. Eine Mittheilung von Hern. Dr. Adolf Berhard Meyer über die von ihm auf Neu-Guinea und den Inseln Jobi, Mysore und Mafoor im Jahre 1873 gesammelten Amphibien. Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1874: 128-140 [also published as a separate print with pages 1-17 with a different title in which “Hern. Dr. Adolf Berhard Meyer über die von ihm” is replaced by “mir”] - get paper here
- Mys, Benoit 1988. The zoogeography of the scincid lizards from North Papua New Guinea (Reptilia: Scincidae). I. The distribution of the species. Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belgique (Biologie) 58: 127-183
- Sauvage, H. E. 1879. Notice sur quelques reptiles nouveaux ou peu connus de la Nouvelle-Guinee. [Elania annulata]. Bull. Soc. philom. Paris (7) 3: 47-61 - get paper here
- Smith, M.A. 1937. A review of the genus Lygosoma (Scincidae: Reptilia) and its allies. Records of the Indian Museum 39 (3): 213-234
- Sternfeld, R. 1918. Zur Tiergeographie Papuasiens und der pazifischen Inselwelt. Abh. senckenb. naturf. Ges. (Frankfurt) 36: 375-436 [missing from BHL in 2023]
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