Lygosoma peninsulare GRISMER, QUAH, DUZULKAFLY & YAMBUN, 2018
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Lygosoma peninsulare
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Lygosominae (Lygosomini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: peninsula supple skink Thai: จิ้งเหลนเรียวมลายู (Jing Lhen Riow Malayu). |
| Synonym | Lygosoma peninsulare GRISMER, QUAH, DUZULKAFLY & YAMBUN 2018 Lygosoma Bampfyldii — BOULENGER 1900: 192 (in part) Lygosoma bampfyldii — BOULENGER 1912: 93 (in part) Lygosoma bampfyldei — DE ROOIJ 1915: 263 (in part) Lygosoma bampfyldii — SMITH 1930: 36 (in part). Riopa bampfyldei — SMITH 1937: 228 Mochlus bampfyledei — MITTLEMAN 1952: 22 Lygosoma bampfyldei — GREER 1977: 915 Lygosoma bampfyldei — WELCH et al. 1990: 83 Riopa bampfyldii — DENZER & MANTHEY 1991: 317 Riopa bampfyldei — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 275 (in part) Riopa bampfyldei — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 27 (in part) Lygosoma bampfyldei — DAS & YAKOOB 2007: 78 Lygosoma bampfyldei — GRISMER 2008: 31 Lygosoma bampfyldei — DAS 2010: 238 (in part) Lygosoma bampfyldei — GRISMER 2011: 613 (in part) Lygosoma peninsularae — GRISMER & QUAH 2019 (in error) |
| Distribution | Peninsular Malaysia (Kelantan), S Thailand Type locality: 13.5 km east of Jeli, Kelantan, Peninsular Malaysia (5° 44’ 31” N; 101° 57’ 39” E; about 440 m ASL). |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: LSUHC 13857, Adult male, collected by Zaharil Dzulkafly on 30 August 2016. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Lygosoma peninsulare sp. nov. can be differentiated from all other Lygosoma by having the combination of a relatively large (SVL = 119 mm) slender body (PEC/SVL = 0.12–0.13); seven supralabials; eight infralabials; midline contact of the supranasals; prefrontals not in contact; frontoparietal contacting three supraoculars; postinterparietal absent; seven superciliaries; two or three postsuboculars, the first being small; one primary and three secondary and tertiary temporals; three nuchal scales; a shallow postnasal groove extending from the nasal scale to below the anterior portion of the eye and lying below the anterior loreals and lower preocular and above the second and third supralabials; scaly lower eyelid, no window; 41 midbody scale rows; 87 paravertebral scale rows; 99 ventral scale rows; 29 caudal scale rows at the tenth subcaudal; seven large precloacal scales; strongly keeled subdigital finger lamellae, 11 lamellae on third finger; enlarged, fringe-like, keeled subdigital toe lamellae, 16 lamellae on fourth toe; raised, rectangular, large palmar scales numbering five across the base of the palm; head pattern consisting of a dark, broken frontal band and a continuous occipital band separated by a diffuse yellowish band; dark occipital band confluent with dark color of dorsum and tail; sides of tail bright red-orange. These characters are scored across all species in the L. bampfyldei group in Table 2. (Grismer et al. 2018) |
| Comment | Habitat: hill dipterocarp forest, leaf litter microhabitat amongst granite boulders. Its elongate body and reduced limbs indicate that this is a semi-fossorial to fossorial species |
| Etymology | The specific epithet refers to this species being endemic to the Thai-Malay Peninsula. The genus Lygosoma is of neutral gender and the specific epithet, peninsulare, is the neutral form of the Latin adjective peninsularis which translates to the English adjective “peninsular”. |
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