Praeteropus monachus HUTCHINSON, COUPER, AMEY & WILMER, 2021
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Praeteropus monachus
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Praeteropus monachus HUTCHINSON, COUPER, AMEY & WILMER 2021 |
| Distribution | Australia (CE Queensland, higher elevations on Mount Abbot in the Lower Burdekin River subbasin of the Burdekin Drainage) Type locality: Mt Abbot, mideastern Queensland (2080603.600S, 147845025.200E); open forest, 800 m elevation. |
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| Types | Holotype. QM J90961; G. Monteith; 27–28 September 2011. Paratypes. QM J62976, Mt Abbot, mideastern Queensland (208060S, 1478450E), G. Monteith, 9–12 April 1997. QM J62995, Mt Abbot, mideastern Queensland (208060S, 1478450E); summit; H. Janetzki; 11 April 1997. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A small species of Praeteropus with fewer than 100 paravertebral scales, 3 supraoculars, 6 supralabials, 4 infralabials, undivided upper secondary temporal, and no prefrontals. Presacral vertebrae 48, 7 cervical vertebrae, 6 premaxillary teeth. Distinguished from all other species in the genus by its color pattern consisting of a series of prominent lateral stripes. |
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| Etymology | Neo-Latin adjective monachus, from the Greek “monachós”, meaning solitary, reclusive (hence, also a hermit or a monk). |
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