Cryptoblepharus cygnatus HORNER, 2007
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Cryptoblepharus cygnatus
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Swanson’s snake-eyed skink |
| Synonym | Cryptoblepharus cygnatus HORNER 2007: 64 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — COCTEAU 1836 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — STORR 1976: 56 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — STORR et al. 1981: 24 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — GOW 1981 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — COGGER et al. 1983a: 142 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — JAMES and SHINE 1985: 466 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — WILSON and KNOWLES 1988: 120 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — SADLIER 1990: 26 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — HORNER 1991: 18 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — EHMANN 1992,: 182 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — WOINARSKI and GAMBOLD 1992: 111; Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — GOODFELLOW 1993: 63 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — GRIFFITHS et al. 1997: 95 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — HORNER and GRIFFITHS 1998: 48 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — STANGER et al. 1998: 23 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — HORNER 1999: 60 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — STORR et al. 1999: 24 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — COGGER 2000: 406 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus — WILSON and SWAN 2003: 148. Cryptoblepharus swansoni WELLS and WELLINGTON 1985: 27 (nomen nudum) Cryptoblepharus cygnatus — WILSON & SWAN 2010 |
| Distribution | Australia (Northern Territory) Type locality: Goose Creek, Melville Island, Northern Territory, 11°30’32”S 130°54’19”E. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: NTM R.22887, adult male, (Tissue sample No. ABTC-AM6), coll. P. Horner, 8 October 1996, open forest, on Melaleuca sp. trunk. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A medium sized (40–44 mm SVL), shortlegged, shallow-headed, arboreal Cryptoblepharus, distinguished from Australian congeners by combination of modal values of six supraciliary scales and 24 mid-body scale rows; mean values of hindlimb length 42.0% of SVL, head depth 43.3% of head length, hemipenis length 10.1% of snout-vent length; callused subdigital lamellae; rounded, plain plantar scales; greyish, longitudinally aligned body pattern and arboreal habits. (Horner 2007) |
| Comment | Sympatry: Cryptoblepharus cygnatus occurs in sympatry with C. metallicus and C. wulbu sympatric with C. metallicus at Jabiluka and Jabiru in Kakadu National Park and with C. wulbu at Mount Borradaile, north-west Arnhem Land. |
| Etymology | From the Latin cygnus, meaning swan, and natus, a son; in reference to Stephen Swanson, herpetological author and photographer. Alludes to the Wells and Wellington (1985) nomen nudum ‘swansoni’. |
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