Ctenotus schevilli (LOVERIDGE, 1933)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Black-soil Rises Ctenotus
Synonym	Sphenomorphus schevilli LOVERIDGE 1933 Ctenotus schevilli — COGGER 1983: 152 Ctenotus schevilli — COGGER 2000: 441 Ctenotus schevilli — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Distribution	Australia (Queensland) Type locality: Army Downs, near Richmond, Qld.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: MCZ 35446, QM J5805
Diagnosis
Comment	Limb morphology: 5 digits, 5 toes (Singhal et al. 2018, Cogger 2014)
Etymology	Named after William Edward Schevill (1906-1994), a cetologist and biologist who was the Librarian of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at Harvard (1938). Schevill was the collector of the species, and was a member of the expedition which collected the material in the paper by Loveridge. At that time, he was a graduate student.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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 Czechura, G.V. 1986. Skinks of the Ctenotus schevilli species group. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 22: 289-297 - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1933. New scincid lizards of the genera Sphenomorphus, Rhodona and Lygosoma from Australia. Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 8: 95-100 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 - get paper here Storr G M 1978. Notes on the Ctenotus (Lacertilia, Scincidae) of Queensland. Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 6 (3): 319-332 - 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.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Ctenotus/schevilli Google images

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