Insulasaurus victoria (BROWN & ALCALA, 1980)
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Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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Synonym | Sphenomorphus victoria BROWN & ALCALA 1980: 175 Sphenomorphus victoria — LINKEM et al. 2010 Insulasaurus victoria — LINKEM, DIESMOS & BROWN 2011 |
Distribution | Philippines (Palawan Island)
Type locality: Thumb Peak, Palawan Island, Philippines.
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Types | Holotype: MCZ 44162 (collected by Edward H. Taylor in 1923 but never formally described by him). |
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Etymology | Named after the Victoria Range of mountains, the central range in which Thumb Peak is located. |
References |
- Brown, R.M. et al. 2010. Species boundaries in Philippine montane forest skinks (Genus Sphenomorphus): three new species from the mountains of Luzon and clarification of the status of the poorly known S. beyeri, S. knollmanae, and S. laterimaculatus. Scient. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas (42): 1-27
- Brown, WC. & A.C. ALCALA 1980. Philippine Lizards of the family Scincidae. Silliman Univ. Nat. Sci., Dumaguete City, Mon., Ser. 2: i-xi + 1-246.
- Linkem, Charles W.; Arvin C. Diesmos, Rafe M. Brown 2011. Molecular systematics of the Philippine forest skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Sphenomorphus): testing morphological hypotheses of interspecific relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 1217–1243 - get paper here
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