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Sphenomorphus darlingtoni (LOVERIDGE, 1945)

IUCN Red List - Sphenomorphus darlingtoni - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Darlington‘s Forest skink
G: Darlingtons Waldskink 
SynonymTropidophorus darlingtoni LOVERIDGE 1945: 47
Sphenomorphus darlingtoni — GREER & PARKER 1967
Sphenomorphus darlingtoni — GREER & SHEA 2004
Sphenomorphus darlingtoni — GOLDBERG 2023 
DistributionPapua New Guinea

Type locality: Mount WIlhelm, Bismark Range, Northern Div.Papua, -5.7817028°, 145.0279279° (AGD66), Error: 15.102 km  
ReproductionOviparous. 
TypesHolotype: MCZ R-47051, female 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: In complete agreement with the generic characters as defined by Malcolm Smith (1935, Fauna of British India, Rept. & Amph. 2, p. 322). Shields and scales smooth, in 34-36 rows around midbody; frontonasal entire; postmental entire; a pair of enlarged preanals. In the following description the paratype variations are given in parentheses (Loveridge 1945: 47).


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Philip Jackson Darlington Jr. (1904-1983), an evolutionary biologist, zoogeographer, and beetle taxonomist. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Goldberg, Stephen R. 2023. Anmerkungen zur Fortpflanzung von Darlington‘s Waldskink Sphenomorphus darlingtoni (Squamata: Scincidae), aus Papua-Neuguinea. Sauria 45 (1): 32-34
  • Greer, A.E. & Shea, G. 2004. A new character within the taxonomically difficult Sphenomorphus group of Lygosomine skinks, with a description of a new species from New Guinea. Journal of Herpetology 38 (1): 79-87 - get paper here
  • Greer,A.E. & Parker,F. 1967. A new scincid lizard from the northern Solomon Islands. Breviora (275): 1-20 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, Arthur 1945. New scincid lizards of the genera Tropidophorus and Lygosoma from New Guinea. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 58: 47-52 - get paper here
 
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