Scincus conirostris BLANFORD, 1881

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Sandfish Skink G: Apothekerskink
Synonym	Scincus conirostris BLANFORD 1881: 677 Scincus muscatensis WERNER 1895 Scincus conirostris — ANDERSON 1896: 49 Scincus conirostris — SCHMIDT 1939 Scincus gasperetti HAAS 1957 Scincus scincus conirostris — LEVITON & ANDERSON 1977: 221 Scincus conirostris — BROWN 1984 Scincus scincus conirostris — SCHÄTTI & GASPERETTI 1994 Scincus scincus conirostris — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Scincus scincus conirostris — AL-SADOON et al. 2016 Scincus conirostris — ŠMÍD et al. 2020
Distribution	Saudi Arabia, Iran, Oman, United Arab Emirates Type locality: “Tangyak, 7 miles south of Bushire”
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: CAS 84519
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A subspecies of S. scincus differing from other populations in the following combination of features: snout often rather short and not as spatulate as in other forms, head frequently quite broad in large animals, rostral and loreals nearly always separated from frontonasal. Adults have fine, dappled dorsal pattern of lighter and darker spots, often interspersed with light, sometimes translucent scales that are yellow or orange in life and are frequently arranged in short irregular transverse bars. No dark vertical bars or spots present on flanks. (Arnold & Leviton 1977)
Comment	Distribution: see map in Seufer et al. 2022.
References	Al-Sadoon, Mohammed K., Bilal Ahmad Paray, Hamad S. Al-Otaibi 2016. Survey of the reptilian fauna of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. V. The lizard fauna of Turaif region. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2016.04.005 - get paper here Anderson, John 1896. A Contribution to the Herpetology of Arabia, with a preliminary list of the reptiles and batrachians of Egypt. London, R. H. Porter, 124 pp. - get paper here Blanford, W.T. 1881. On a collection of Persian reptiles recently added to the British Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1881: 671-682 - get paper here Brown, J.N.B. 1984. Skinks in the UAE. Bulletin of the Emirates Natural History Group 22: http://www.enhg.org/bulletin/b22/22_17.htm - get paper here Carranza, Salvador; Johannes Els; Bernat Burriel-Carranza 2021. A field guide to the reptiles of Oman. Madrid : Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 223 pp. [review in HR 53 (3): 531] - get paper here Haas, Georg 1957. Some amphibians and reptiles from Arabia. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 29 (3): 47-86 - get paper here Schätti, B. & Gasperetti, J. 1994. A contribution to the herpetofauna of Southwest Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 14: 348-423 Schmidt,K.P. 1939. Reptiles and amphibians from Southwestern Asia. Publ. Field Mus. nat. Hist., zool. Ser., 24: 49-92 - get paper here Seufer, Hermann; Thomas Kowalski, Berd-Michael Zwanzig & Wolfgang Grossmann 2022. Ein bisher übersehener Fundort von Scincus conirostris Blanford, 1881 im Sultanat Oman. [A hitherto overlooked locality of Scincus conirostris Blanford, 1881 in the Sultanate of Oman] Sauria 44 (4): 43-48 Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here Šmíd, J., Uvizl, M., Shobrak, M., AlGethami, R. H. M., Algethami, A. R., Alanazi, A. S. K., ... & Carranza, S. 2020. Swimming through the sands of the Sahara and Arabian deserts: Phylogeny of sandfish skinks (Scincidae, Scincus) reveals a recent and rapid diversification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 155: 107012 [online 2020, print 2021] - get paper here Werner, F. 1894. Zweiter Beitrag zur Herpetologie von Ost-Algerien. Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 44: 75-87 - get paper here
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