Eutropis macrophthalma (MAUSFELD & BÖHME, 2002)
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Eutropis macrophthalma
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Mabuya macrophthalma MAUSFELD & BÖHME 2002 Eutropis grandis HOWARD, GILLESPIE, RIYANTO & ISKANDAR 2007 Eutropis macrophthalma — AMARASINGHE et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (Sulawesi) Type locality: see comment grandis: Indonesia (Sulawesi); Type locality: Lambusango Reserve, Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, 5°12’59’’S, 122°52’10’’E, 400 m elevation. |
| Reproduction | oviparous (phylogenetic imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: ZFMK 71717, female Holotype: MZB 4862, male [grandis] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (grandis): A large species, snout–vent length (SVL) 105.3–135.5 mm for mature females (N 5 10) and 116.9–142.6 mm for mature males (N 5 8); snout tapered, rounded at tip, snout length 43–54% head length and 49–69% head breadth; head breadth 68–86% head length and 14–18% SVL; eye diameter 43–64% snout length and 28–38% head breadth (Table 1). Rostral contacts frontonasal; supranasals separated; prefrontals contact at midline or narrowly separated; frontal slightly tapered, twice length of frontoparietal or equal to frontoparietal and interparietal combined; frontal contacts second supraocular (rarely narrow contact with first supraocular); four large supraoculars; frontoparietals distinct; interparietal large, separating parietals, and depth equal to that of parietals; anterior loreal square in shape and half length of posterior loreal; supralabials 8 (rarely 7 or 9), sixth beneath eye (subocular); infralabials 8 (rarely 9 or 10); mental as broad as postmental; tympanum 25–30% eye diameter, deeply sunk, small and lacking lobules; dorsal and lateral scales with three prominent and two (sometimes three) secondary keels; head shields embossed; midbody scale rows 25–27; paravertebrals 32–40; preanal scales 6, rarely enlarged; limbs well developed, adpressed hind limb 96– 130% axilla–groin distance and 41–63% SVL; fourth finger length 25–27% forelimb length; fourth toe length 32–34% hind-limb length; toes rank 4,3,5,2,1 longest to shortest; subdigital lamellae on fourth toe 20–24. |
| Comment | Synonymy: Amarasinghe et al. 2018 synonymized Eutropis grandis with Eutropis macrophthalma. Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024. Etymology: The specific name ‘‘grandis’’ meaning ‘‘large.’’ Distribution: The type locality of E. macrophthalma (”Java”) is probably in error fide AMARASINGHE et al. 2018. NCBI taxon ID: 1545750 [grandis] |
| Etymology | Named after the Latinized Greek makros = large, and ophthalmos = eye, pointing on the remarkably large eyes of the new species. |
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