Eugongylus unilineatus (DE ROOIJ, 1915)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Lygosoma unilineatum DE ROOIJ 1915: 208 Lygosoma uniliniatum [sic] — DE JONG 1930: 116 Lygosoma unilineatum — DAAN & HILLENIUS 1966: 134 Eugongylus unilineatus — GREER & SHEA 2000
Distribution	Indonesia (West Papua), Papua New Guinea ? Type locality: Tanah Merah Bay on the north coast of New Guinea [West Papua, Indonesia]
Reproduction
Types	Lectotype: ZMA.RENA 10912
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Comment
Etymology	Presumably from the Latin unus (one), plus linea (line), in reference to the narrow dark vertenbral stripe of the species.
References	Daan, S. & Hillenius,D. 1966. Catalogue of the type specimens of amphibians and reptiles in the Zoological Museum, Amsterdam. Beaufortia 13: 117-144 De JONG 1930. Notes on some reptiles from the Dutch East Indies. Treubia, Buitenzorg, 12 (1): 115-119 - get paper here 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, A.E. & SHEA, G. 2000. A phylogenetically important lygosomine skink resurrected from taxonomic obscurity: Lygosoma unilineatum de Rooij, 1915. Journal of Herpetology 34 (1): 85-91 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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