Ornithuroscincus nototaenia (BOULENGER, 1914)
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Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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Synonym | Lygosoma nototaenia BOULENGER 1914: 256 Lygosoma (Hinulia) nototaenia — DE ROOIJ 1915: 181 Sphenomorphus nototaenia — LOVERIDGE 1948 Lipinia nototaenia — SHEA & GREER 2002 Lipinia nototaenia — DAS & AUSTIN 2007 Ornithuroscincus nototaenia — SLAVENKO et al. 2021 Lipinia nototaenia — LINDKEN et al. 2024 |
Distribution | Papua New Guinea
Type locality: Launch Camp, Setekwa River; now Southern Irian Jaya.
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Reproduction | |
Types | Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.17.56 |
Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1492 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
Comment | SVL to 47.5 mm; external ear opening present; 24–25 midbody scale rows; 52–55 longitudinal scale rows between parietals and base of tail; seven supralabials (from DAS & AUSTIN 2007).
Has been confused with Sphenomorphus minutus. |
References |
- Boulenger, G.A. 1914. An annotated list of the batrachians and reptiles collected by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea. Trans. Zool. Soc. London 20 (5): 247-275 - get paper here
- Das, I. & Austin, C.C. 2007. New Species of Lipinia (Squamata: Scincidae) from Borneo, Revealed by Molecular and Morphological Data. Journal of Herpetology 41 (1): 61 - get paper here
- de Rooij, N. de 1915. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 384 pp. - get paper here
- Loveridge, A. 1948. New Guinean reptiles and amphibians in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and United States National Museum. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 101 (2): 305-430. - get paper here
- Shea, G. 2008. A range extension for Lipinia nototaenia (Boulenger, 1914) (Squamata: Scincidae) and the reproductive mode of the species. Hamadryad 32 (1): 69-70 - get paper here
- Shea, G.M. 2007. A range extension for Lipinia nototaenia (Boulenger, 1914) (Squamata : Scincidae) and the reproductive mode of the species. Hamadryad 32 (1): 80-81 - get paper here
- Shea, Glenn M. and Allen E. Greer 2002. From Sphenomorphus to Lipinia: Generic reassignment of two poorly known New Guinea skinks. Journal of Herpetology 36 (2): 148-156 - get paper here
- Slavenko, Alex, Karin Tamar, Oliver J. S. Tallowin, Fred Kraus, Allen Allison, Salvador Carranza & Shai Meiri. 2021. Revision of the montane New Guinean skink genus Lobulia (Squamata: Scincidae), with the description of four new genera and nine new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195 (1): 220–278 - get paper here
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