Niveoscincus metallicus (O'SHAUGHNESSY, 1874)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae, Sauria (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	Metallic Cool-skink
Synonym	Mocoa ocellata GRAY 1845: 82 (part.) Mocoa metallica O'SHAUGHNESSY 1874: 299 Mocoa pseudocarinata O'SHAUGHNESSY 1874: 300 (part.) Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) metallicum — SMITH 1937: 225 Leiolopisma metallicum - GREER 1974 Leiolopisma metallicum — COGGER 1983: 169 Litotescincus metallica — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985 Niveoscincus metallicus - HUTCHINSON et al. 1990 Pseudemoia metallica - FRANK & RAMUS 1995 Niveoscincus metallicus — MELVILLE & SWAIN 2000 Niveoscincus metallica — COGGER 2000: 564 Carinascincus metallicus — GREER 2005 (online)
Distribution	Australia (Tasmania, Victoria), West Pacific Islands (fide SMITH 1937) Type locality: Tasmania. Map legend: - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map. NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
Types	Paralectotype: BMNH 1946.8.10.78, from Australia [Mocoa ocellata] Syntypes: BMNH 1946.8.7.7-14, from Tasmania [Mocoa metallica]. Paralectotype: BMNH 1946.8.16.22, from Tas. [Mocoa pseudocarinata]. For the lectotype (BMNH 1946.8.16.21) see Leiolopisma entrecasteauxii.
Comment	Habitat: Wet/dry sclerophyll forest, dry sclerophyll woodland, Ground, elevation 40-1000 m. Reproduction: viviparous
References	Baehr, M. 1976. Beiträge zur Verbreitung und Ökologie tasmanischer Reptilien. Stuttgarter Beitr. Naturk. (A) 292: 1-24 Brongersma,L.D. 1942. Notes on scincid lizards. Zool. Meded. R. Mus. Nat. Hist. Leiden 24: 125-152 - get paper here Chapple, D.G. & Swain, R. 2004. Caudal autotomy does not influence thermoregulatory characteristics in the metallic skink, Niveoscincus metallicus. Amphibia-Reptilia 25 (3): 326-333 - get paper here Cogger,H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp. Gray, J. E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman, London: xxvii + 289 pp. - get paper here Greer, Allen E. 1982. A new species of Leiolopisma (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Western Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 34 (12): 549-573 Hutchinson M N; Donnellan S C; Baverstock P R; Krieg M; Simms S; Burgin S 1990. Immunological relationships and generic revision of the Australian lizards assigned to the genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Australian Journal of Zoology 38 (5): 535-554 - get paper here Hutchinson,M.D. & Schwaner,T.D. 1991. Genetic relationships among the Tasmanian scincid lizards of the genus Niveoscincus. Journal of Herpetology 25 (1): 49-58 - get paper here Melville, Jane; Swain, Roy 2000. Evolutionary relationships between morphology, performance and habitat openness in the lizard genus Niveoscincus (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70: 667–683. - get paper here Melville,J. & SWAIN,R. 2000. Mitochondrial DNA-sequence based phylogeny and biogeography of the snow skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Niveoscincus) of Tasmania. Herpetologica 56 (2): 196-208 - get paper here O’Shaughnessy,A.W.E. 1874. A description of a new species of Scincidae in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 13: 298-301 - get paper here Rawlinson, P. A. 1974. Biogeography and ecology of the reptiles of Tasmania and the Bass Strait area. In: Williams, W. D. (ed.) Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania,Chapt. 11. The Hague: Junk, pp. 291-338 Smith,M.A. 1937. A review of the genus Lygosoma (Scincidae: Reptilia) and its allies. Records of the Indian Museum 39 (3): 213-234 Taylor, R. J.;Dudley, A.;Gale, P. G. 1993. Reptiles and amphibians in sclerophyll forest surrounding Old Chum Dam in north-eastern Tasmania Herpetofauna (Sydney) 23 (1): 26-31 Wilson,S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/scincidae.pdf http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics/lizards/images/metalive2.htm http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics/lizards/images/metalive3.htm http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/BHAN-55J79X?open http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Niveoscincus/metallicus Google images

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