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Praeteropus monachus HUTCHINSON, COUPER, AMEY & WILMER, 2021

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymPraeteropus monachus HUTCHINSON, COUPER, AMEY & WILMER 2021 
DistributionAustralia (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.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. 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. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: 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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EtymologyNeo-Latin adjective monachus, from the Greek “monachós”, meaning solitary, reclusive (hence, also a hermit or a monk). 
References
  • Hutchinson, M. N., Couper, P., Amey, A., & Wilmer, J. W. 2021. Diversity and Systematics of Limbless Skinks (Anomalopus) from Eastern Australia and the Skeletal Changes that Accompany the Substrate Swimming Body Form. Journal of Herpetology 55 (4): 361-384 - get paper here
 
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