Emoia baudini (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1839)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Great Bight Cool-skink; Baudin’s Skink
Synonym	Gongylus (Eumeces) Baudini DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 653 Emoia baudini — GRAY 1845: 95 Emoia baudini — GIRARD 1858:263 Lygosoma baudini — BOULENGER 1887: 296 Lygosoma Baudinii — BOULENGER 1895: 30 Emoia baudini — BARBOUR 1912:94 Emoia baudini — SMITH 1937:227 (part.) Emoia baudini — MITTLEMAN 1952:22 Emoia baudini — GREER 1974: 20 Emoia baudini — BROWN 1991: 22 Gongylus baudini — FRANK & RAMUS 1995: 187
Distribution	Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Vogelkop Peninsula; Buru, Ternate, Aru Islands, Waigeo; Celebes [fide SMITH 1937 and BROWN 1991] Type locality: New Guinea
Reproduction	oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Lectotype: MNHN-RA 5006A. 3 syntypes - MNHN-RA 5006A (now lectotype) and MNHN-RA 5006 and MNHN-RA 5006B paralectotypes
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy: mostly after BROWN 1991.
Etymology	Named after Nicholas Baudin (1756-1803), French naturalist and Commander-in-Chief of a French voyage of discovery along the western and southern coasts of Australia between 1801 and 1803.
References	Barbour, Thomas 1912. A Contribution to the Zoögeography of the East Indian Islands. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy 44 (1): 1-203 - 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 Boulenger, G. A. 1887. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575 pp. - get paper here Boulenger, G. A. 1895. On a collection of reptiles and batrachians from Ferguson Island, D'Entrecasteaux group British New Guinea. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 16: 28-32 - 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 Brygoo, E.R. 1985. Les types des scincidés (Reptiles, Sauriens) du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, catalogue critique. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. (4e sér.) 7 (sect. A 3), suppl.: 1-126 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 Girard, Charles F. 1858. United States Exploring Expedition during the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Vol. 20. Herpetology. C. Sherman & Son, Philadelphia, xv, 492 pages [see note in Zhao and Adler 1993: 369] - get paper here Gray, J. E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman, London: xxvii + 289 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 Mittleman, M.B. 1952. A generic synopsis of the Lizards of the Subfamily Lygosominae. Smithson. misc. Collns, 117: 1-35. - get paper here Smith, M.A. 1937. A review of the genus Lygosoma (Scincidae: Reptilia) and its allies. Records of the Indian Museum 39 (3): 213-234 Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
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