Brachymeles isangdaliri DAVIS, FELLER, BROWN & SILER, 2014

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Aurora Slender Skink
Synonym	Brachymeles isangdaliri DAVIS, FELLER, BROWN & SILER 2014
Distribution	Philippines (Luzon) Type locality: near the campus of Aurora State College of Technology (ASCOT), Barangay Zabali, Municipality of Baler, Aurora Province, Luzon Island, Philippines (15°44’31.2’’N, 121°34’33.6’’E; WGS-84)
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: PNM 9791 (formerly KU 323086; RMB Field No. 12651), adult female, collected on 8 June 2009, by A. Diesmos, R. M. Brown, and C. D. Siler. Paratopotypes: One juvenile (KU 323085) collected on 8 June 2009.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Brachymeles isangdaliri can be distinguished from congeners by the following combination of characters: 1) body size small (SVL 59.5 mm); 2) limbs unidactyl; 3) limb length short; 4) supralabials six; 5) infralabials six; 6) supraciliaries six; 7) supraoculars four; 8) midbody scale rows 22; 9) axilla–groin scale rows 73; 10) paravertebral scale rows 97; 11) pineal eye spot present; 12) prefrontal contact absent; 13) frontoparietal contact absent; 14) enlarged chin shields in two pairs; 15) nuchals enlarged; 16) auricular opening absent; 17) presacral vertebrae 47; and 18) uniform body color (Tables 3, 4). Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 531 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Habitat: under rotting logs in secondary-growth forest (1000–1230 h) Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	The name of the new species is derived from the Tagalog (Filipino) terms ‘isa,’ meaning one, and ‘daliri,’ meaning digit, to represent the species unidactyl limbs.
References	DAVIS, DREW R.; AARON D. GEHEBER, JESSA L. WATTERS, MICHELLE L. PENROD, KATHRYN D. FELLER, ALISSA ASHFORD, JOSH KOURI, DANIEL NGUYEN, KATHRYN SHAUBERGER, KYRA SHEATSLEY, CLAIRE WINFREY, RACHEL WONG, MARITES B. SANGUILA, RAFE M. BROWN & CAMERON D. SIL 2016. Additions to Philippine Slender Skinks of the Brachymeles bonitae Complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) III: a new species from Tablas Island. Zootaxa 4132 (1): 030–043 - get paper here Davis, Drew R.; Kathryn D. Feller, Rafe M. Brown, and Cameron D. Siler 2014. Evaluating the Diversity of Philippine Slender Skinks of the Brachymeles bonitae Complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae): Redescription of B. tridactylus and Descriptions of Two New Species. Journal of Herpetology 48 (4): 480-494. - get paper here 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 Siler, C. D., Freitas, E. S., Sheridan, J. A., Maguire, S. N., Davis, D. R., Watters, J. L., ... & Brown, R. M. 2020. Additions to Philippine slender skinks of the Brachymeles bonitae complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) IV: Resurrection and redescription of Brachymeles burksi. Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology, DOI 10.26757/pjsb2020b14005 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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