| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | |
| Synonym | Lygosoma (Hinulia) jobiense MEYER 1874
Eumeces aruensis DORIA 1874
Hinulia megaspila GÜNTHER 1877: 128
Lygosoma (Sphenomorphus) megaspila megaspila — LOVERIDGE 1948: 345
Lygosoma jobiense — BOULENGER 1895: 29
Lygosoma jobiense — DE ROOIJ 1915: 195
Lygosoma jobiense elegans STERNFELD 1918
Lygosoma amblyplacodes VOGT 1932: 283
Otosaurus amblyplacodes — SMITH 1937: 218
Otosaurus jobiense — SMITH 1937: 218
Lygosoma (Sphenomorphus) aruensis — LOVERIDGE 1948
Sphenomorphus amblyplacodes — GREER & PARKER 1967
Sphenomorphus jobiensis — ZWEIFEL 1980: 420
Sphenomorphus jobiensis — MYS 1988: 143
Sphenomorphus variegatus jobiense
Sphenomorphus jobiensis — AUSTIN 1995
Sphenomorphus jobiense — LINKEM et al. 2010
Sphenomorphus amblyplacodes — LINKEM et al. 2010 |
| Distribution | Papua New Guinea, Admirality Islands, Bismarck Archipelago,
Indonesia (Misool, Salawati, Aru Islands, Irian Jaya and Yapen)
elegans: Type locality: “Ross-Insel, Neu-Pommern”
amblyplacodes: Indonesia (Irian Jaya), New Guinea; Type locality: New Guinea
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Lectotype: ZMB 8985. Designation by Wermuth in Inger (1961); see Bauer et al. (2003).
Syntypes: ZMB 7939, MSNG 27901 [aruensis]
Lectotypus: SMF 14482 (=Kat. MERTENS 6247, la). female [elegans]
Syntypes: ZMB 26462, 64292 (formerly part of ZMB 26462); Holl. Neu-Guinea l= Papua Propinsi, Indoncsia'l; con. Dr. Moszkowski [amblyplacodes] |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | Habitat: forest floor.
Synonymy: Eumeces aruensis was synonymized with S. jobiensis by BOULENGER 1887 which was confirmed by ZWEIFEL 1980. Hinulia megaspila Günther was placed in the synonymy of jobiense Meyer by Boulenger (1887:247) which Loveridge 1948 regards as a very different reptile; hence the status of H megaspila remains unclear here and is placed in the synonymy of S. jobiense only preliminarily. Lygosoma rufum BOULENGER 1887 has been removed from the synonymy of S. jobiensis. Lygosoma amblyplacodes is a synonym of S. jobiense fide G. Shea, pers. comm. via Shei Meiri, 5 Aug 2014.
Recognition of aruensis for the purposes of the IUCN listing was based on unpublished work by Shea and Greer, who were able to link the name aruensis to one of the entities identified as specifically distinct on allozyme electrophoresis by Donnellan & Aplin (1989) [the other species identified by D&A are unnamed] (Glenn Shea and David Chapple, pers. comm. 11 March 2019). |
| Etymology | |
| References |
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