Silvascincus tryoni (LONGMAN, 1918)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Border Ranges Blue-spectacled, Forest Skink
Synonym	Lygosoma (Hinulia) tryoni LONGMAN 1918: 38 Sphenomorphus tryoni — BUSTARD 1964 Eulamprus tryoni — SADLIER 1998 Eulamprus tryoni — COGGER 2000: 757 Karma tryoni — WELLS 2009 Eulamprus tryoni — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Silvascincus tryoni — SKINNER et al. 2013 Concinnia tryoni — COGGER 2014: 457 Karma tryoni — COGGER 2014: 978 (addendum) Karma tryoni — SWAN et al 2017 Karma tryoni — SHEA 2019
Distribution	Australia (New South Wales, Queensland) Type locality: Macpherson Ranges, 3000 ft, S Qld.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: QM J3023 Holotype: NFIRM 3212, from Mt. Tambourine, Qld. [Lygosoma tamburinense] Holotype: AM R6485, from Richmond River, N. S. W. [L. tenuis intermedius]
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy partly after COGGER 1983, who lists this species as synonym of Sphenomorphus murrayi. Not listed by COGGER 2014. Limb morphology: 5 digits, 5 toes (Singhal et al. 2018, Cogger 2014)
Etymology	Named after Henry Tryon (1856-1943), an English scientist. He abandoned medicine in favor of natural science, particularly botany and entomology. He later became an Honorary Assistant at the Queensland Museum and then was officially employed there (1883-1893), becoming Assistant Curator (1885).
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bustard, H. R. 1964. Reproduction in the Australian rain forest skinks, Siaphos equalis and Sphenomorphus tryoni. Copeia 1964 (4): 715-716 - 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 Longman, H. A. 1918. Notes on some Queensland and Papuan reptiles. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 37-44 - get paper here Sadlier,R.A. 1998. Recognition of Eulamprus tryoni (Longman), a scincid lizard endemic to the McPherson Ranges of eastern Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42 (2): 573-578 - get paper here Shea, G.M. 2019. Current status of the genera Karma and Magmellia Wells, 2009 (Scincidae: Lygosominae: Sphenomorphini) with a morphological character to distinguish the two genera. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 61: 187–191 - 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 Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp. Wells, R.W. 2009. Some taxonomic and nomenclatural considerations on the class Reptilia in Australia. A review of the genera Eulamprus and Glaphyromorphus (Scincidae), including the description of new genera and species. Australian Biodiversity Record (3): 1–96. 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/Eulamprus/tryoni Google images

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