Cryptoblepharus metallicus (BOULENGER, 1887)
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Cryptoblepharus metallicus
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Metallic snake-eyed skink |
| Synonym | Ablepharus boutoni metallicus BOULENGER 1887: 347 Ablepharus boutonii metallicus — WAITE 1929 Ablepharus boutoni metallicus – MERTENS 1931: 119 Ablepharus boutoni metallicus – LOVERIDGE 1934: 375 Ablepharus boutoni metallicus – MITCHELL 1964: 337 Ablepharus boutoni metallicus – WORRELL 1963: 35; Ablepharus boutoni metallicus – MERTENS 1964: 106. Cryptoblepharus boutonii metallicus – COGGER & LINDNER 1974: 83. Cryptoblepharus metallicus – WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 27. Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus – COGGER et al. 1983: 142 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus – WILSON & KNOWLES 1988: 120 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus – HORNER 1991: 18 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus – COVACEVICH & COUPER 1991: 357; Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus – EHMANN 1992: 182 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus – STANGER et al. 1998: 23 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus – COGGER 2000: 406 Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus – WILSON & SWAN 2003: 148 Cryptoblepharus metallicus — HORNER 2007 |
| Distribution | Australia (from inland south-eastern Queensland, through eastern and northern Queensland, the northern half of the Northern Territory to the Kimberley region of Western Australia) Type locality: most likely on the bank of the Victoria River, near the present-day town of Timber Creek, Northern Territory (see comment). |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Lectotype: BMNH 57.10.24.38. Designated by Wells & Wellington (1985). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis. A large (45–50 mm SVL), short-legged, shallow-headed, arboreal Cryptoblepharus, distinguished from Australian congeners by combination of modal values of six supraciliary scales, 24 mid-body scale rows and 48 paravertebral scales; mean values of hindlimb length 41.4% of snout-vent length, head depth 41.7% of head length, tail length 144.2% of snout-vent length; smooth subdigital lamellae; rounded, usually callused plantar scales; greyish, longitudinally aligned body pattern and being arboreal. Boulenger diagnosed the taxon as having “22 or 24 scales around the body. Four anterior labials. Yellowish or greenish above, strongly metallic, with small dark brown spots forming a more or less irregular band on each side”. No type locality was given, though the general area can be determined from the expedition’s journal (Gregory and Gregory 1884). Storr (1976) synonymised A. b. metallicus with C. plagiocephalus. |
| Comment | Sympatry. C. ruber, C. cygnatus, C. juno, C. adamsi, C. exochus, C. l. horneri, C. l. litoralis, C. mertensi, C. pannosus, C. pulcher, C. tytthos, C. virgatus and C. zoticus. |
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