| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | |
| Synonym | Lygosoma (Hinulia) undulatum PETERS & DORIA 1878: 343
Lygosoma aruanum ROUX (fide GREER & PARKER 1974)
Lygosoma (Hinulia) aruanum — DE ROOIJ 1915: 186
Lygosoma amboinense KOPSTEIN 1926: 83
Sphenomorphus undulatus — DUNN 1927
Lygosoma dammermani KOPSTEIN 1927: 441
Lygosoma (Sphenomorphus) undulatum — SMITH 1937: 220
Sphenomorphus undulatus — ADLER, AUSTIN & DUDLEY 1995 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (Irian Jaya), New Guinea
Type locality: “Kordo nell’Isola di Misori [Korido, Biak Island, Irian Jaya]; Andai [Doberai (Vogelkop) Peninsula, Irian Jaya]; Fly River [Papua New Guinea?]”.
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| Reproduction | Oviparous |
| Types | Syntypes: MSNG 27834-5 (3 specimens in total), from Korido, Misori I., collected O. Beccari, 1875; Andai, New Guinea, collected L.M. D'Albertis, 1872, and Fly River, New Guinea, collected L.M. d'Albertis, 1875.
Holotype: NMBA = NHMB [aruanum]
Holotype: MZB [dammermani] |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | Synonymy: L. dammermani and Lygosoma amboinense have only been tentatively synonymized with S. undulatus.
Distribution: not on the Solomon Islands fide McCoy 2015. |
| References |
- Adler,G.H.; Austin,C.C. & Dudley,R. 1995. Dispersal and speciation of skinks among archipelagos in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Evolutionary Ecology 9: 529-541 - get paper here
- Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. 1995. The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 pp.
- 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
- Dunn, E. R. 1927. Results of the Douglas Burden Expedition to the Island of Komodo. III.- Lizards from the East Indies. American Museum Novitates (288): 1-13 - get paper here
- Greer, A. E. & F. Parker 1974. The fasciatus group of Sphenomorphus (Lacertilia: Scincidae): notes on eight previously described species and description of three new species. Papua New Guin. Sci. Soc. Proc. [1973] 25: 31-61.
- 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
- Iskandar, Djoko T. and Mumpuni 2002. The herpetological type specimens in the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Collection. Hamadryad 27 (1):123-135 - get paper here
- Kramer, Eugen 1979. Typenkatalog der Echsen im Naturhistorischen Museum Basel (BM), Stand 1978. [type catalogue] Revue Suisse de Zoologie 86 (1): 159-166 - get paper here
- McCoy, M. 2015. A Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Solomon Islands. Michael McCoy, Kuranda - get paper here
- Peters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig and G. Doria. 1878. Catalogo dei retilli e dei batraci raccolti da O. Beccari, L. M. D'Alberts e A. A. Bruijn. nella sotto-regione Austro-Malese. Annali del Museo Civico de Storia Naturale di Genova. ser. 1, 13: 323-450 - get paper here
- Smith, M.A. 1937. A review of the genus Lygosoma (Scincidae: Reptilia) and its allies. Records of the Indian Museum 39 (3): 213-234
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