Concinnia tigrina (DE VIS, 1888)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Yellow-blotched Forest-skink, Rainforest Water-skink
Synonym	Hinulia tigrina DE VIS 1888: 817 Sphenomorphus tigrinus — COGGER 1983: 188 Eulamprus tigrinus — COGGER 2000: 489 Eulamprus tigrinus — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Concinnia tigrinus — SKINNER et al. 2013 Concinnia tigrina — COGGER 2014: 456 Concinnia tigrina — CHAPPLE et al. 2021
Distribution	Australia (Queensland) Type locality: Innisfail (as Geraldton), Qld.
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: QM J245
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Comment	Synonymy after COGGER 1983. Limb morphology: 5 digits, 5 toes (Singhal et al. 2018, Cogger 2014) Total length ? mm. Fore limb 19 mm. Head, length .. 16 Hind limb 29 Head, width 9•5 Tail (reproduced) Body, length 51
Etymology	Presumably named after the Latin tigris (tiger) plus the feminine diminutive suffix -ina, meaning a small tiger, alluding to the colour pattern of the species. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024)
References	Chapple, David G; Roll, Uri; Böhm, Monika; Aguilar, Rocío Amey, Andrew P Austin, Chris C Baling, Marleen Barley, Anthony J Bates, Michael F Bauer, Aaron M Blackburn, Daniel G Bowles, Phil Brown, Rafe M Chandramouli, S R Chirio, Laurent Cogger, Hal Co 2021. Conservation Status of the World’s Skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and Geographic Patterns in Extinction Risk. Biological Conservation 257: 109101 - get paper here Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp. Couper, P., Covacevich, J., Amey, A. & Baker, A. 2006. The genera of skinks (Family Scincidae) of Australia and its island territories: diversity, distribution and identification. in: Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G.M. & Lee, M.S.Y. (eds.). Evolution and Zoogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, pp. 367-384 Covacevich, J., Ingram, G. J. & Czechura, G. V. 1982. Rare frogs and reptiles of Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Biol. Conserv. 22: 283-294 - get paper here De Vis, C. W. 1888. A contribution to the herpetology of Queensland. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales (2) 2: 811-826 [1887] - get paper here Singhal, Sonal; Huateng Huang, Maggie R. Grundler, María R. Marchán-Rivadeneira, Iris Holmes, Pascal O. Title, Stephen C. Donnellan, and Daniel L. Rabosky 2018. Does Population Structure Predict the Rate of Speciation? A Comparative Test across Australia’s Most Diverse Vertebrate Radiation. The American Naturalist 192 (4): 432-447 - get paper here Skinner, Adam; Mark N. Hutchinson, Michael S.Y. Lee 2013. Phylogeny and Divergence Times of Australian Sphenomorphus Group Skinks (Scincidae, Squamata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69 (3): 906–918 - get paper here Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.jcu.edu.au/dept/Zoology/herp/wtlz/wtlz.html http://www.jcu.edu.au/dept/Zoology/herp/mosstab.html http://www.wildherps.com/species/E.tigrinus.html http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Eulamprus/tigrinus Google images

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