Sphenomorphus latifasciatus (MEYER, 1874)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Lygosoma (Hinulia) latifasciata MEYER 1874: 6 Elania annulata SAUVAGE 1878: 48 Lygosoma tigrina LIDTH DE JEUDE 1897: 250 Lygosoma tornieri VOGT 1911 Lygosoma tigrina — VOGT 1911: 421 Lygosoma jeudii BOULENGER 1914: 261 (nom. nov.) Lygosoma jeudei — DE ROOIJ 1915: 223 Lygosoma mülleri var. latifasciatum — DE ROOIJ 1915: 223 Lygosoma tornieri — DE ROOIJ 1915: 224 Sphenomorphus tornieri — MITTLEMAN 1952 Sphenomorphus jeudei — MITTLEMAN 1952: 25 Sphenomorphus jeudei — GREER & PARKER 1967 Lygosoma muelleri latifasciata — BRYGOO 1985: 5 Sphenomorphus latifasciatus — GREER 2001
Distribution	Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea) Type locality: “Jobi” jeudei: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea (Astrolabe Bay, Bogadjim, Sattelberg)
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: lost, was MTD (MTKD) Realkatalog 219, Doré, New Guinea, collected A.B. Meyer. Lost due to bombing of collection during World War II (Obst, 1977). Holotype: ZMB 22137 [Lygosoma tornieri] Holotype: MNHN 5263 (2967) (= MHNP) [Elania annulata] Holotype: RMNH [jeudei]
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (3712 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Synonymy: partly after de Rooij 1915, Brygoo 1985, and fide G. Shea (pers. comm., 2 May 2012). S. jeudei is a brighly colored juvenile of S. latifasciatus. Holotype of latifasciatus not listed in ZMB type catalogue of Bauer & Günther 2003.
References	Boulenger, G. A. 1898. An account of the reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. L. Loria in British New Guinea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 18: 694—710 [1897?] - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1914. An annotated list of the batrachians and reptiles collected by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea. Trans. Zool. Soc. London 20 (5): 247-275 - get paper here Brygoo, E.R. 1985. Les types des scincidés (Reptiles, Sauriens) du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, catalogue critique. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. (4e sér.) 7 (sect. A 3), suppl.: 1-126 de Rooij, N. de 1915. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 384 pp. - get paper here Greer, Allen E. 2001. Distribution of maximum snout-vent length among species of Scincid lizards. Journal of Herpetology 35 (3): 383-395 - get paper here Greer,A.E. & Parker,F. 1967. A new scincid lizard from the northern Solomon Islands. Breviora (275): 1-20 - get paper here Meyer, A.B. 1874. Eine Mittheilung von Hern. Dr. Adolf Berhard Meyer über die von ihm auf Neu-Guinea und den Inseln Jobi, Mysore und Mafoor im Jahre 1873 gesammelten Amphibien. Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1874: 128-140 [also published as a separate print with pages 1-17 with a different title in which “Hern. Dr. Adolf Berhard Meyer über die von ihm” is replaced by “mir”] - get paper here Van Lidth de Jeude, T.W. 1897. Reptiles and batrachians from New Guinea. Notes from the Leyden Museum 18: 249-257 - get paper here Vogt, T. 1911. Reptilien und Amphibien aus Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 1911: 420-420 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List http://nsdb.bishopmuseum.org/?w=PBIF&id=-904212316&explst=r&rpp=1000&pge=1 Google images

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