Sepsiscus pluto (INGRAM, 1977)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Cape York Worm-skink
Synonym	Anomalopus (Vermiseps) pluto INGRAM 1977 Anomalopus pluto — GREER & COGGER 1985: 24 Coeranoscincus pluto — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 26 Suppressascincus pluto — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1988 Anomalopus pluto — COGGER 2000: 385 Anomalopus pluto — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Sepsiscus pluto — HUTCHINSON et al. 2021
Distribution	Australia (Queensland) Type locality: McDonald Crossing, Cockatoo Creek, 115 km S of Bamaga, Cape York, in 11° 33’ S, 142° 26’ E, Qld.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: QM J26261
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (genus). Body serpentiform; limbless. Eyelids moveable, scaly; ear opening absent but external ear differentiated as a vertically elongate trough with small weakly ossified scales (Fig. 3C in Hutchinson et al. 2021). Additional details (5819 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Limb morphology: 0 digits 0 toes (Limbless, Singhal et al. 2018, Cogger 2014) Type species: Anomalopus pluto INGRAM 1977 is the type species of the genus Suppressascincus WELLS & WELLINGTON 1988. Type species: Anomalopus (Vermiseps) pluto INGRAM 1977 is the type species of the genus Sepsiscus HUTCHINSON et al. 2021. Morphology: Hutchinson et al. 2021 present a table of morphological character states across 20 Australian sphenomorphine skinks, including this genus.
Etymology	Named after the god of the underworld, Pluto. The genus was named after Latin seps, classically, a small but dangerous snake, but in the herpetological literature associated with limb-reduced skinks, and -iscus, a diminutive, thus ‘‘little seps.’’
References	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 Greer A E; Cogger H G 1985. Systematics of the reduce-limbed and limbless skinks currently assigned to the genus Anomalopus (Lacertilia: Scincidae). Rec. Austral. Mus. 37(1) 1985: 11-54 - get paper here 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 Ingram G J 1977. A new species of legless skink Anomalopus pluto from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Victorian Naturalist 94 (2): 52-53 - get paper here Singhal, Sonal; Huateng Huang, Maggie R. Grundler, María R. Marchán-Rivadeneira, Iris Holmes, Pascal O. Title, Stephen C. Donnellan, and Daniel L. Rabosky 2018. Does Population Structure Predict the Rate of Speciation? A Comparative Test across Australia’s Most Diverse Vertebrate Radiation. The American Naturalist - get paper here Skinner, Adam; Mark N. Hutchinson, Michael S.Y. Lee 2013. Phylogeny and Divergence Times of Australian Sphenomorphus Group Skinks (Scincidae, Squamata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69 (3): 906–918 - get paper here Wells, R.W., & Wellington, C.R. 1988. Amphibians and reptiles of the Upper Cox’s River area, Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia, with comments on Greer & Cogger’s recent reclassification of the genus Anomalopus (sensu lato). Australian Herpetologist 505: 1-15 Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/scincidae.pdf http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Anomalopus/pluto info: http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/scincidae.pdf Google images

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