Scincella boettgeri (VAN DENBURGH, 1912)
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Scincella boettgeri
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Boettger's Ground Skink |
| Synonym | Leiolopisma laterale boettgeri VAN DENBURGH 1912: 7 Scincella boettgeri — SCHMIDT 1927 Lygosoma reevesii boettgeri — NAKAMURA & UÉNO 1963 Scincella boettgeri — GREER 1974 Scincella boettgeri — CHEN, OTA & HIKIDA 2001 Scincella boettgeri — SHEA & GREER 2002 Scincella boettgeri — LINKEM et al. 2011 Scincella boettgeri — KOIZUMI et al. 2014 |
| Distribution | Japan (S Ryukyu Islands, endemic to Miyako and Yaeyama Islands). Type locality: Ishigaki-shima, Loo Choo Islands, Japan |
| Reproduction | oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: CAS 21678; Other syntypes reported as BMNH 1946.8.16.75-76. Holotype: MCZ 7966 [schmidti] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis. Similar to L. laterale but with frontal usually separated from the frontonasal by prefrontals; scales around body more numerous,-twenty-eight to thirty-two rows around middle of body; fewer scales in a longitudinal row on back. Dark lateral band broader and with less definite lower border. (Van Denburgh 1912: 7) |
| Comment | Scincella boettgeri has been considered as synonym of S. modesta (by OUBOTER 198). Van Denburgh (1912) diagnosed Leiolopisma laterale boettgeri from L. laterale formosensis, as well as from the nominotypical subspecies, on the basis of relative positions of prefrontals, the numbers of scales around the middle and along the middorsal line of body, and the degree of distinctness in the lower border of the dorso-lateral dark stripe. |
| Etymology | Named after Oskar Boettger (1844-1910), herpetologist at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main. |
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