Insulasaurus wrighti TAYLOR, 1925

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Wright's Sphenomorphus
Synonym	Insulasaurus wrighti TAYLOR 1925: 103 Sphenomorphus wrighti — GREER & PARKER 1967: 9 Lygosoma (Sphenomorphus) wrighti — BROWN & ALCALA 1970: 113 Sphenomorphus wrighti — BROWN & ALCALA 1980: 192 Sphenomorphus wrighti — LINKEM et al. 2010 Insulasaurus wrighti — LINKEM, DIESMOS & BROWN 2011
Distribution	Philippines (Palawan) Type locality: Palawan Island
Reproduction	oviparous (phylogenetic imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: MCZ 26301
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (genus): Insulasaurus is diagnosed by the following combination of characters: (1) medium body size, 45–64 mm SVL; (2) paravertebral scale rows 62–78; (3) midbody scale rows 29–41; and (4) subdigital lamellae 15–25.
Comment	Type species: Insulasaurus wrighti TAYLOR 1925 is the type species of the genus Insulasaurus TAYLOR 1925.
Etymology	Named after John Dutton Wright (1866-1952), an educator and philanthropist in New York and Santa Barbara, California. He provided financial support for Taylor's trip to Palawan.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Brown, R.M. et al. 2010. Species boundaries in Philippine montane forest skinks (Genus Sphenomorphus): three new species from the mountains of Luzon and clarification of the status of the poorly known S. beyeri, S. knollmanae, and S. laterimaculatus. Scient. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas (42): 1-27 Brown, Walter C.; Alcala, Angel C. 1970. The zoogeography of the herpetofauna of the Philippine Islands, a fringing archipelago. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 38 (6): 105-130 - get paper here Brown, WC. & A.C. ALCALA 1980. Philippine Lizards of the family Scincidae. Silliman Univ. Nat. Sci., Dumaguete City, Mon., Ser. 2: i-xi + 1-246. Greer,A.E. & Parker,F. 1967. A new scincid lizard from the northern Solomon Islands. Breviora (275): 1-20 - get paper here Linkem, Charles W.; Arvin C. Diesmos, Rafe M. Brown 2011. Molecular systematics of the Philippine forest skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Sphenomorphus): testing morphological hypotheses of interspecific relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 1217–1243 - get paper here Taylor,E.H. 1925. Additions to the herpetological fauna of the Philippines, IV. Philippine J. Sci. 26: 97-111 Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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