Sphenomorphus modiglianii (BOULENGER, 1894)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Lygosoma modigliani BOULENGER 1894: 614 Lygosoma (Hinulia) modigliani — DE ROOIJ 1915: 175 Sphenomorphus modigliani — MITTLEMAN 1952 Sphenomorphus modigliani — MALKMUS et al. 2002: 283 Sphenomorphus modiglianii — GRISMER et al. 2009 Sphenomorphus modiglianii — DATTA-ROY et al. 2013
Distribution	Indonesia (Sumatra: Mentawi Island, Borneo) Type locality: Sumatra: Mentawi Island: Sipora
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.16.98 (formerly 94.12.18.10), Sereinu, Mentowei Islands, collected Dr. E Modigliani.
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Comment	Type: not in BMNH (P. Campbell, pers. comm., 7 July 2014). Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named after Elio Modigliani (13 June 1860 – 6 August 1932), Italian explorer, naturalist and ethnographer, who collected the type. (Glenn Shea, pers. comm., 2 Feb 2024)
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1894. A list of reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. E. Modigliani on Sereinu (Sipora), Mentawei Islands. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova: 613-618. - get paper here Datta-Roy, ANIRUDDHA; INDRANEIL DAS,, AARON M. BAUER, RONALD K. LYNGDOH TRON & PRAVEEN KARANTH 2013. Lizard Wears Shades. A Spectacled Sphenomorphus (Squamata: Scincidae), from the Sacred Forests of Mawphlang, Meghalaya, North-east India. Zootaxa 3701 (2): 257–276 - 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 Grismer, L. Lee 2006. Two new species of skinks (Genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger 1843) from the Seribuat Archipelago, West Malaysia. Herpetological Natural History 9 (2): 151-162. Grismer, L. Lee. 2008. A new species of insular skink (Genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger 1843) from the Langkawi Archipelago, Kedah, West Malaysia with the first report of the herpetofauna of Pulau Singa Besar and an updated checklist of the herpetofauna of Pulau Langkawi. Zootaxa 1691: 53-66 - get paper here Grismer, L.L. 2007. A new species of small montane forest floor skink (genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger 1843) form Southern peninsular Malaysia. Herpetologica 63 (4): 544-551 - get paper here Grismer, L.L.; Wood Jr., P.L. & Grismer, J.L. 2009. A New Insular Species of Skink of the Genus Sphenomorphus Strauch 1887 (Squamata: Scincidae) from Pulau Perhentian Besar, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. Tropical Life Sciences Research, 20(1): 51–69 - get paper here Malkmus, R.; Manthey, U.; Vogel, G. Hoffmann, P. & Kosuch, J. 2002. Amphibians and reptiles of Mount Kinabalu (North Borneo). A.R.G. Ganther Verlag, Rugell, 404 pp. Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here Mittleman, M.B. 1952. A generic synopsis of the Lizards of the Subfamily Lygosominae. Smithson. misc. Collns, 117: 1-35. - get paper here TEYNIÉ, ALEXANDRE; PATRICK DAVID, & ANNEMARIE OHLER 2010. Note on a collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Western Sumatra (Indonesia), with the description of a new species of the genus Bufo. Zootaxa 2416: 1–43 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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