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Sphenomorphus wau SHEA & ALLISON, 2021

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymSphenomorphus wau SHEA & ALLISON 2021 
DistributionPapua New Guinea (Morobe Province)

Type locality: Mt. Kaindi, 1900m, 5km WNW Wau (7.337259°S 146.666090°E, AGD 66 datum), Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: BPBM 14182, female, collected A. Allison, 11 May 1973 (field tag AA 140). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Identifiable as a member of the tribe Sphenomorphini by the medial pair of preanals being enlarged and laterally overlapping the adjacent preanals, upper secondary temporal separated from first pair of nuchals by an upper tertiary temporal, and with most of the supradigital scales divided (Greer 1974; 1979; 1990). Assigned to the Sphenomorphus solomonis species group of Greer and Shea (2004) by lacking a windowed lower eyelid, and possessing a postsupraocular scale. Differs from all other members of the S. solomonis species group in having the last two supralabials undivided, the primary temporal divided, and the first supralabial not fused to the nasal. (Shea et al. 2021).


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EtymologyThe species name is a noun in apposition alluding to the type locality (both the nearest town and the location of the former Wau Ecology Institute), and suggestive of surprise, the first author’s initial thought when he found the specimen among the unidentified Sphenomorphus material at the Bishop Museum. 
References
  • Shea, Glenn M. & Allen Allisonn 2021. A new species of Sphenomorphus (Squamata: Scincidae) from Mount Kaindi, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. in: Telnov D., Barclay M. V. L. & Pauwels O. S. G. (eds) 2021. Biodiversity, biogeography and nature conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea. Volume IV. The Entomological Society of Latvia, Rīga, pp. 49–60
 
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