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Insulasaurus victoria (BROWN & ALCALA, 1980)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymSphenomorphus victoria BROWN & ALCALA 1980: 175
Sphenomorphus victoria — BROWN 1995
Sphenomorphus victoria — LINKEM et al. 2010
Insulasaurus victoria — LINKEM, DIESMOS & BROWN 2011 
DistributionPhilippines (Palawan Island)

Type locality: Thumb Peak, Palawan Island, Philippines.  
Reproductionoviparous (phylogenetic imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 44162 (collected by Edward H. Taylor in 1923 but never formally described by him). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: S. victoria differs from S. kinabaluensis in nearly every one of the nine characters listed in Table 13. It differs from S. murudensis in : (1) the number of anterior loreals; (2) the smaller prefrontal which are separated or narrowly in contact; and (3) the smaller number of large supraoculars (4 instead of 5). From S. mindanensis, to which it is probably most closely related, it differs in (1) the larger eye relative to snout length or head breadth (Table 1) ; and (2) the color pattern. S. victoria has a more uniform dorsal pattern, lacking the blackish mottling or exhibiting only a vertebral row of dark bars, and the dark band on the upper lateral surface is much more uniform and even-margined dorsally. (Brown & Alcala 1980) 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed 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, W.C. 1995. A new lizard of the genus Sphenomorphus (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Mt. Kitanglad, Mindanao Island, Philippine Island. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 108 (3): 388-391. - get paper here
  • 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
  • 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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