Insulasaurus victoria (BROWN & ALCALA, 1980)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
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.
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: MCZ 44162 (collected by Edward H. Taylor in 1923 but never formally described by him).
Diagnosis
Comment
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
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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