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Prasinohaema virens (PETERS, 1881)

IUCN Red List - Prasinohaema virens - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Green-blooded Vineskink, Green Tree Skink 
SynonymLipinia virens PETERS 1881: 81
Lipinia anolis BOULENGER 1883: 161
Lipinia anolis — BOULENGER 1886: 40
Lygosoma virens — BOULENGER 1895: 409
Lygosoma (Liolepisma) anolis — STERNFELD 1918: 401
Leiolopisma anolis — BARBOUR 1921: 104
Lygosoma anolis virens — SMITH 1937: 224
Prasinohaema virens — GREER 1974
Lipinia virens — HEATWOLE 1975
Prasinohaema virens — MYS 1988: 142
Prasinohaema virens — ADLER, AUSTIN & DUDLEY 1995
Prasinohaema virens — ZUG 2013: 200 
DistributionPapua New Guinea, Solomon Islands

Type locality: “südöstliche Theile Neu-Guineas”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 9950 
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Comment 
EtymologyPresumably from the Latin participle virens (green) in reference to the green coloration of the species in life. 
References
  • Adler,G.H.; Austin,C.C. & Dudley,R. 1995. Dispersal and speciation of skinks among archipelagos in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Evolutionary Ecology 9: 529-541 - get paper here
  • Austin,C.C. and K. W. Jessing 1994. Green-blood pigmentation in lizards. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 109A (3): 619-626 - get paper here
  • Barbour, Thomas 1921. Reptiles and amphibians from the British Solomon Islands. Proc. New England zool. Club 7: 91-112 - get paper here
  • Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. 1995. The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 pp.
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1883. Description of new species of reptiles and batrachians in the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 12: 161-167 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1886. On the reptiles and batrachians of the Solomon Islands. Trans. Zool. Soc. London 12: 35-62
  • Boulenger, George A. 1895. Description of two new reptiles obtained by Mr. A.S. Meek in the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 16: 408-409 - get paper here
  • Greer, A.E. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 1-67. - get paper here
  • Heatwole, H. 1975. Biogeography of reptiles on some of the islands and cays of Eastern Papua-New Guinea. Atoll Research Bulletin (180): 1-41 - get paper here
  • McCoy, M. 2006. Reptiles of the Solomon Islands. Pensoft Series Faunistica 57, 212 pp.
  • McCoy, M. 2015. A Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Solomon Islands. Michael McCoy, Kuranda - get paper here
  • Mys, Benoit 1988. The zoogeography of the scincid lizards from North Papua New Guinea (Reptilia: Scincidae). I. The distribution of the species. Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belgique (Biologie) 58: 127-183
  • Peters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig 1881. Drei neue Eidechsen, zu der Familie der Scincoiden gehörig, eine Lipinia (mit geckonenuahnlicher Bildung der Zehen!) aus Neu-Guinea und wie Mocoa aus Neuholland. Sitzungsber. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin 1881 (5): 81-85 - get paper here
  • Reeder, T.W. 2003. A phylogeny of the Australian Sphenomorphus group (Scincidae: Squamata) and the phylogenetic placement of the crocodile skinks (Tribolonotus): Bayesian approaches to assessing congruence and obtaining confidence in maximum likelihood inferred relationships. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27: 384–397 - get paper here
  • Sternfeld, R. 1918. Zur Tiergeographie Papuasiens und der pazifischen Inselwelt. Abh. senckenb. naturf. Ges. (Frankfurt) 36: 375-436 [missing from BHL in 2023]
  • ZUG, G.R. 2013. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands. University of California Press, Berkeley, 306 pp. - get paper here
 
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