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Pseudemoia pagenstecheri (LINDHOLM, 1901)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Southern Grass Tussock Skink, Southern Tussock Grass Skink 
SynonymLygosoma (Liolepisma) pagenstecheri LINDHOLM 1901
Leiolopisma entrecasteauxii — COGGER 1983: 168
Eulepis entrecasteauxii —WELLS & WELLINGTON 1983: 94
Claireascincus jenkinsi WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 25
Claireascincus schumacki WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 25
Claireascincus wardi WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 26
Pseudemoia pagenstecheri — HUTCHINSON & DONNELLAN 1992
Pseudemoia pagenstecheri — COGGER 2000: 765
Claireascincus pagenstecheri — GREER 2005 (online)
Pseudemoia pagenstecheri — KÖHLER & GÜSTEN 2007 
DistributionAustralia (higher mountain ranges of NE Victoria; according to map in Cogger 1994 also in E New South Wales and on Tasmania)

Type locality: probably South Australia  
Reproductionovovivparous<br><br>Hybridization: Pseudemoia cryodroma, P. entrecasteauxii and P. pagenstecheri hybridise (Haines et al. 2016). 
TypesNeotype: NMV D50902, an adult male, 9-6 km ESE of Rockbank (37°44'S, 144°39'E), Victoria, collected on 8 July 1977, by M. Hutchinson and G. Brow, designated by Hutchinson & Donnellan 1992. Holotype originally in WNS = MWNH, lost when forwarded to platemaker in Frankfurt (Rawlinson, cited by Cogger 1983), from '?Süd-Australien". 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: HUTCHINSON & DONNELLAN 1992: 240
 
CommentSynonymy: mostly after HUTCHINSON & DONNELLAN 1992.

Distribution: map in HUTCHINSON & DONNELLAN 1992. 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Heinrich Alexander Pagenstecher (1825-1889), a physician, zoologist, and comparative anatomist. He taught at the Universitat Heidelberg (1856), before becoming Professor of Zoology there (1865). 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here
  • Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp.
  • Couper, P., Covacevich, J., Amey, A. & Baker, A. 2006. The genera of skinks (Family Scincidae) of Australia and its island territories: diversity, distribution and identification. in: Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G.M. & Lee, M.S.Y. (eds.). Evolution and Zoogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, pp. 367-384
  • Eldridge, M. D. B., S. Ingleby, A. G. King, S. V. Mahony, H. E. Parnaby, C. A. Beatson, A. Divljan, G. J. Frankham, A. C. Hay, R. E. Major, S. E. Reader, R. A. Sadlier, and L. R. Tsang. 2020. Australian Museum surveys of the vertebrate fauna of Coolah Tops National Park, NSW. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online 30: 1–26 - get paper here
  • Haines, M L; J Melville, J Sumner, N Clemann, D G Chapple and D Stuart-Fox 2016. Geographic variation in hybridisation and ecological differentiation between three syntopic, morphologically similar species of montane lizards. Molecular Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/mec.13652 - get paper here
  • Hutchinson M N. DONNELLAN S C. 1992. Taxonomy and genetic variation in the Australian lizards of the genus Pseudemoia (Scincidae Lygosominae). Journal of Natural History 26 (1): 215-264. - get paper here
  • Köhler, J. & Güsten, R. 2007. Herpetological type specimens in the natural history collections of the museums in Darmstadt and Wiesbaden, Germany. Spixiana 30 (2): 275-288 - get paper here
  • Lindholm, W. A. 1901. Bemerkungen und Beschreibung einer neuen Eidechsensart versehen von W. A. Lindholm. In: Lampe, E., Catalog der Reptilien-Sammlung (Schildkröten, Crocodile, Eidechsen und Chamaeleons) des Naturhist. Museums zu Wiesbaden. Jahrb. Nassau Ver. Naturk. 54: 177-222 - get paper here
  • Stewart, James R. and Tom W. Ecay 2010. Patterns of maternal provision and embryonic mobilization of calcium in oviparous and viviparous squamate reptiles. Herp. Cons. Biol. 5 (2) - get paper here
  • Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp.
  • Thompson, M.B. & J.R. Stewart 1994. Egg and Clutch Size of the Viviparous Australian Skink, Pseudemoia pagenstecheri and the Identity of Species with Type III Allantoplacentae Journal of Herpetology 28 (4): 519-521. - get paper here
  • Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
 
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