Sphenomorphus latifasciatus (MEYER, 1874)
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Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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Synonym | Lygosoma (Hinulia) latifasciata MEYER 1874: 6 Elania annulata SAUVAGE 1878: 48 Lygosoma tigrina LIDTH DE JEUDE 1897: 250 Lygosoma tornieri VOGT 1911 Lygosoma tigrina — VOGT 1911: 421 Lygosoma jeudii BOULENGER 1914: 261 (nom. nov.) Lygosoma jeudei — DE ROOIJ 1915: 223 Lygosoma mülleri var. latifasciatum — DE ROOIJ 1915: 223 Lygosoma tornieri — DE ROOIJ 1915: 224 Sphenomorphus tornieri — MITTLEMAN 1952 Sphenomorphus jeudei — MITTLEMAN 1952: 25 Sphenomorphus jeudei — GREER & PARKER 1967 Lygosoma muelleri latifasciata — BRYGOO 1985: 5 Sphenomorphus latifasciatus — GREER 2001 |
Distribution | Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea)
Type locality: “Jobi”
jeudei: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea (Astrolabe Bay, Bogadjim, Sattelberg)
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Reproduction | |
Types | Holotype: lost, was MTD (MTKD) Realkatalog 219, Doré, New Guinea, collected A.B. Meyer. Lost due to bombing of collection during World War II (Obst, 1977). Holotype: ZMB 22137 [Lygosoma tornieri] Holotype: MNHN 5263 (2967) (= MHNP) [Elania annulata] Holotype: RMNH [jeudei] |
Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (3712 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
Comment | Synonymy: partly after de Rooij 1915, Brygoo 1985, and fide G. Shea (pers. comm., 2 May 2012). S. jeudei is a brighly colored juvenile of S. latifasciatus.
Holotype of latifasciatus not listed in ZMB type catalogue of Bauer & Günther 2003. |
References |
- Boulenger, G. A. 1898. An account of the reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. L. Loria in British New Guinea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 18: 694—710 [1897?] - get paper here
- Boulenger, G.A. 1914. An annotated list of the batrachians and reptiles collected by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea. Trans. Zool. Soc. London 20 (5): 247-275 - get paper here
- Brygoo, E.R. 1985. Les types des scincidés (Reptiles, Sauriens) du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, catalogue critique. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. (4e sér.) 7 (sect. A 3), suppl.: 1-126
- de Rooij, N. de 1915. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 384 pp. - get paper here
- Greer, Allen E. 2001. Distribution of maximum snout-vent length among species of Scincid lizards. Journal of Herpetology 35 (3): 383-395 - 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
- Meyer, A.B. 1874. Eine Mittheilung von Hern. Dr. Adolf Berhard Meyer über die von ihm auf Neu-Guinea und den Inseln Jobi, Mysore und Mafoor im Jahre 1873 gesammelten Amphibien. Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1874: 128-140 [also published as a separate print with pages 1-17 with a different title in which “Hern. Dr. Adolf Berhard Meyer über die von ihm” is replaced by “mir”] - get paper here
- Van Lidth de Jeude, T.W. 1897. Reptiles and batrachians from New Guinea. Notes from the Leyden Museum 18: 249-257 - get paper here
- Vogt, T. 1911. Reptilien und Amphibien aus Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 1911: 420-420 - get paper here
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