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Prasinohaema prehensicauda (LOVERIDGE, 1945)

IUCN Red List - Prasinohaema prehensicauda - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Prehensile Green Tree Skink 
SynonymLygosoma (Leiolopisma) prehensicauda LOVERIDGE 1945
Scincella prehensicauda — WOODRUFF 1972
Prasinohaema prehensicauda — GREER 1974
Prasinohaema prehensicauda — PIANKA & VITT 2003
Prasinohaema prehensicauda — KRAUS 2013
Prasinohaema prehensicauda — SLAVENKO et al. 2021 
DistributionPapua New Guinea (Milne Bay Prov.: E slope Mt. Suckling, Sota, 9.7580°S, 149.1822°E, 1860 m elevation; Mt. Kaindi, Owen Stanley Range) (Kraus 2013, Gressitt and Nadkarni 1978)

Type locality: “between 7500-8000 feet on Mount Wilhelm, Bismarck Range, Madang Division, New Guinea” (elevation)  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 47057 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Referable to the section 'Leiolopisma as redefined by Malcolm Smith (1987, Rec. Indian Mus., 39, p. 223) in his section B.b., though snout might well be called subacuminate. Related, though not closely except in scale-counts, to L. anoliB (Boulenger) of the Solomons. L. prehenaicauda is a larger, stouter species with a blunter, less acuminate, snout than that of anolia; the toes o( the adpressed hind limb are widely separated from the fingers of the backward pressed forelimb, certainly not reaching to the elbow as in the slender-limbed anolia. The parietals are well separated by the interparietal; there are no definite nuchals; the dorsals are striated, not smooth; and the peculiar subcaudal scalation of prehensicauda is lacking in our extensive series of anolia. In the following description paratype variations are given in parentheses (Loveridge 1945: 48).


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References
  • Austin,C.C. and K. W. Jessing 1994. Green-blood pigmentation in lizards. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 109A (3): 619-626 - 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
  • Kraus, Fred 2010. COLOUR-PATTERN POLYMORPHISM IN LIZARDS OF THE GENUS PRASINOHAEMA (SQUAMATA: SCINCIDAE). Herpetofauna 40 (1): 30-36
  • Kraus, Fred. 2013. Further range extensions for reptiles and amphibians from Papua New Guinea. Herpetological Review 44 (2): 277-280 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, Arthur 1945. New scincid lizards of the genera Tropidophorus and Lygosoma from New Guinea. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 58: 47-52 - get paper here
  • Woodruff, D.S. 1972. Amphibians and reptiles from Simbai, Bismarck-Schrader Range, New Guinea. Mem. Nat. Mus. Vict. 33: 57-64 - get paper here
 
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