| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Dunn's Emo Skink |
| Synonym | Emoia similis DUNN 1927
Emoia sembalunica MERTENS 1927
Leiolopisma sembalunicum MERTENS 1927
Leiolopisma sembilunicum — MERTENS 1930: 158
Emoia similis — MERTENS 1930: 160
Emoia similis — SMITH 1937: 227
Leiolopisma kadarsani DAREVSKY 1964
Leiolopisma kardarsani DAREVSKY 1964 (fide HOW et al. 1998)
Leiolopisma kadarsani padariensis DAREVSKY 1964
Leiolopisma sembilunica rintjana DAREVSKY 1964
Emoia sembalunica — GREER 1974: 20
Emoia similis — GREER 1974: 20
Emoia sembilunica rintjana — BROWN 1991
Emoia similis — BROWN 1991
Emoia similis — HOW et al. 1998 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (Komodo, Padar, Rintja; Flores [fide SMITH 1937], Lombok)
Type locality: Komodo, 500-1500 feet elevation.
kardarsani: Komodo and Padar.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: AMNH 31977
Holotype: SMF 22091 [sembalunicum]
Holotype: MZB Lace; Paratypes: ZISP 17607.1–19 (19 specimens), “Rintja Island in the Lesser Sundas Archipelago” [Rinca Island, West Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tengarra, Indonesia]. Leg.: I.S. Darevsky, 10.VIII.1962 [rintjana]
Holotype is MZB Lace.976 from “Komodo Island” (Iskandar & Mumpuni 2002); Paratypes: ZISP 17599.1-14 (14 specimens), “Komodo Island in the Lesser Sundas Archipelago” [Komodo Island, West Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tengarra, Indonesia]. Leg.: I.S. Darevsky, 2.VIII.1962 [Leiolopisma kadarsani]
Holotype: ZISP 17605, adult male, “Padar Island in the Lesser Sundas Archipelago” [Padar Island, West Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tengarra, Indonesia]. Leg.: I.S. Darevsky, 8.VIII.1962.
Paratypes: ZISP 17606.1–2 (two specimens), “Padar Island in the Lesser Sundas Archipelago” [Padar Island, West Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tengarra, Indonesia]. Leg.: I.S. Darevsky, 8.VIII.1962. Iskandar & Mumpuni (2002) incorrectly cited MZB Lace.978, a female from “Komodo Island” as a holotype. [padariensis] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: An Emoia with short legs, barely meeting when appressed; inter- parietal fused; frontal longer than prefrontal; 22 lamelae under fourth toe; 28 smooth scales around body; allied to cyanurum and kordoanum but with shorter legs (Dunn 1927: 9). |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | Dunn doesn’t give an etymology but the species is likely named after its similarity to E. lessonii (= E. cyanura) and E. kordoana. |
| References |
- Auffenberg W 1980. The herpetofauna of Komodo, with notes on adjacent areas. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 25 (2): 39-156 - get paper here
- BARABANOV, ANDREI & KONSTANTIN MILTO 2017. An annotated type catalogue of the anguid, dibamid, scincid and varanid lizards in the Department of Herpetology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia (Reptilia: Sauria: Anguidae, Dibamidae, Scincidae and Varanidae). Zootaxa 4244 (1): 065–078 - 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
- Darevsky, l. S. 1964. New species of scincoid lizards from the islands of Lesser Sundas Archipelago, East Indonesia [in Russian]. [Translated from Russian for the National Science Foundation Office of Science Information Services, ed. James A. Peters]. Zool. J. (Moscow) 43 (1): 80-88 [available from Smithsonian Herp Inf Serv. (7)] - get paper here
- Darevsky, l. S. 1964. Die Reptilien der Inseln Komodo, Padar und Rintja im Kleinen Sunda-Archipel, Indonesien. Senckenbergiana biologica 43 (3/5): 563-576
- Dunn, E. R. 1927. Results of the Douglas Burden Expedition to the Island of Komodo. III.- Lizards from the East Indies. American Museum Novitates (288): 1-13 - get paper here
- 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
- 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
- KENNEDI, UMAR F.; MIRZA D. KUSRINI, ANI MARDIASTUTI, AND ACHMAD ARIEFIANDY 2021. THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES IN KOMODO NATIONAL PARK AND THE SURROUNDING AREA. Media Konservasi 26 (3): 217-230; DOI: 10.29244/medkon.26.3.217-230 - get paper here
- Mertens, R. 1930. Die Amphibien und Reptilien der Inseln Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa und Flores. Senck. Naturf. Gesell., Frankfurt am Main, Abhandl. 42(3): 117-344.
- Mertens, R., 1927. Neue Amphibien und Reptilien aus dem Indo-Australischen Archipel, gesammelt während der Sunda-Expedition Rensch. Senckenbergiana 9: 234-242
- Peters, James A. (Editor) 1966. New species of scincid lizards from the Islands of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago (East Indonesia) by I. S. Darevskii. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (7): 1-8 - 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
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