| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Slevin's Emo Skink, Mariana skink |
| Synonym | Emoia slevini BROWN & FALANRUW 1972
Emoia slevini — GREER 1974: 20
Emoia slevini — ADLER, AUSTIN & DUDLEY 1995
Emoia slevini — RICHMOND et al. 2021 |
| Distribution | Mariana Islands
Type locality: Cocas Island, Manana Islands.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: USNM 192781 |
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| Comment | Distribution: extirpated on Guam (G. Rodda, pers. comm., 13 March 2016). |
| Etymology | Named after Joseph Richard Slevin (1881-1957), curator of Herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences 1928-1957. |
| References |
- Adler,G.H.; Austin,C.C. & Dudley,R. 1995. Dispersal and speciation of skinks among archipelagos in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Evolutionary Ecology 9: 529-541 - get paper here
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- 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. & FALANRUW,M.V.C. 1972. A new lizard of the genus Emoia (Scincidae) from the Marianas Islands. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 39 (9): 105-110 - get paper here
- Goldberg, S.R. 2017. Emoia slevini (Slevin’s Brown Skink) Reproduction. Herpetological Review 48 (3): 643-644. - 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
- McCoid M J. Rodda G H. Fritts T H. 1995. Distribution and abundance of Emoia slevini (Scincidae) in the Marianna Islands. Herpetological Review 26 (2): 70, 72 - get paper here
- Richmond, J. Q., Wostl, E., Reed, R. N., & Fisher, R. N. 2021. Range eclipse leads to tenuous survival of a rare lizard species on a barrier atoll. Oryx, 1-10 - get paper here
- Rodda, G. H., Fritts, T. H., & Chiszar, D. 1997. The disappearance of Guam's Wildlife. BioScience 47 (9): 656-574 - get paper here
- ZUG, G.R. 2013. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands. University of California Press, Berkeley, 306 pp. - get paper here
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