Dibamus oetamai PRASETYO, YUDHA, AMARASINGHE, INEICH, GILLESPIE & RIYANTO, 2025
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Dibamus oetamai
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| Higher Taxa | Dibamidae, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Buton blind skink Indonesian: Kadal buta Buton |
| Synonym | Dibamus oetamai PRASETYO, YUDHA, AMARASINGHE, INEICH, GILLESPIE & RIYANTO 2025 Dibamus novaeguineae — GILLESPIE et al. 2005 Dibamus sp. nov. — GILLESPIE et al. 2015 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (Buton Island) Type locality: Kakenauwe (5°10'59.10''S, 122°54'59.65''E, datum = WGS84 in all cases; 14 m above sea level), Lasalimu, Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. An adult male, MZB 4273 (SVL 103.4 mm), collected, collected by G.R. Gillespie on 21 July 2002. Paratypes (n=5). Adult males, MZB 4276 (SVL 145.7 mm), MZB 4278 (SVL 117.0 mm); Juvenile male MZB 4272 (SVL 62.4 mm); Adult females, MZB 4274 (SVL 138.6 mm), MZB 4279 (SVL 117.2 mm); other collection data the same as holotype. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (n=6). A species of Dibamus only known from Buton Island which differs from all the nominal species by having the following combination of morphological characters: maximum SVL of 145.7 mm; tail comparatively short, TL comprising 12.0–14.8% of SVL; medial and lateral rostral sutures absent, labial and nasal sutures complete; frontal larger than frontonasal (relative size of frontonasal 0.75– 1.04); interparietal distinctly smaller (half size of) than frontonasal; interparietal more or less similar in size to nuchals (relative size of nuchals 0.67–1.43) with 4–6 surrounding nuchal scales; two postocular scales; a single supralabial; 6–8 chin scales bordering the posterior edge of the first infralabials and mental; the medial sublabial scale not enlarged; 22–24 midbody scale rows; 24–26 transverse scale rows just posterior to head; 21–23 transverse scale rows just anterior to vent; 192–197 ventral scales in males, 214–221 in females; 40–42 subcaudal scales in males, 17– 28 in females; and two or three light-coloured bands present on the body. (Prasetyo et al. 2025) 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 5319 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | Named after Dr. Jakob Oetama (27 Sep 1931–9 Sep 2020), a renowned journalist and the co-founder of Kompas Gramedia―the largest media group in Indonesia, for his enormous contribution to Indonesian Journalism. Dr. J. Oetama also served as the advisor to the Central Board of the Indonesian Journalists Association and the ASEAN Journalists Confederation. Prasetyo et al. use the modern name “Oetama”, formed in the case of singular masculine, adding the suffix (-i). |
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