Emoia physicae (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1839)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies	Emoia physicae purari BROWN 1991 Emoia physicae physicae (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839)
Common Names	E: Slender Emo Skink
Synonym	Euprepes Physicae DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 688 Emoia physicae physicae — BROWN 1953: 20 Emoia physicae — GREER 1974: 20 Emoia physicae — BROWN & PARKER 1985 Emoia physicae — MYS 1988: 136 Emoia physicae physicae — BROWN 1991: 41 Emoia physicae purari BROWN 1991 Emoia physicae purari — BROWN 1991: 41 Emoia physicae purari — SHEA 1999: 33
Distribution	Papua New Guinea Type locality: “Nouvelle-Guinée”; restricted to “Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea” by BROWN 1991. purari: Papua New Guinea (Gulf Province); Uraru, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MNHN-RA 2949 (by monotypy), New Guinea, collected Quoy & Gaimard. Holotype: CAS 117848 [purari]
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Etymology	Named for the ship La Physicienne, a replacement ship of the Uranie expedition, which took the expedition home to France after the Uranie was wrecked in the Falkland Islands. The type of the species was collected by Quoy & Gaimard, the naturalists aboard the Uranie.
References	Brown W C 1991. Lizards of the genus Emoia (Scincidae) with observations on their evolution and biogeography. MEMOIRS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (No. 15) 1991: i-vi, 1-94 - get paper here Brown W C; Parker F 1985. Three new lizards of the genus Emoia (Scincidae) from southern New Guinea. Breviora (480): 1-12 - get paper here Brown, Walter C. 1953. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 69 A review of New Guinea lizards allied to Emoia baudini and Emoia physicae (Scincidae). American Museum Novitates (1627): 1-25 - get paper here Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. 1839. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Vol. 5. Roret/Fain et Thunot, Paris, 871 pp. - get paper here Greer, A.E. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 1-67. - get paper here Mys, Benoit 1988. The zoogeography of the scincid lizards from North Papua New Guinea (Reptilia: Scincidae). I. The distribution of the species. Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belgique (Biologie) 58: 127-183
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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