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Lygosoma (Emoa) impar

Description

Lygosoma (Emoa) impar WERNER (1898: 553)

Syntype: ZISP 9144 (one specimen), “ Neu Britannia ” [Bismark Archipelago, Papua New Guinea]. Received from F. Werner in 1898.

Present name: Emoia impar (Werner, 1898) fide Ineich & Zug (1991).

Remarks: Additional syntypes are ZMB 14661, 14662 from “ Ralum ” [Bismark Archipelago, Papua New Guinea] and ZMB 15204, 15204 A-D from “ Mioko ” [Mioko Island, Bismark Archipelago, Papua New Guinea] (Bauer et al. 2003). Werner reported a type series of 12 specimens, from “ Ralum und Mioko ”, collected by Dahl. The syntypes were reported lost, and a neotype (NMW 9965.1) was designated by Ineich & Zug (1991) who stated that the type series had been lodged in NMW and had been lost or destroyed. The discovery of a portion of the original type series by Bauer et al. (2003) invalidates the neotype designation.

Notes

Published as part of Barabanov, Andrei & Milto, Konstantin, 2017, An annotated type catalogue of the anguid, dibamid, scincid and varanid lizards in the Department of Herpetology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia (Reptilia: Sauria: Anguidae, Dibamidae, Scincidae and Varanidae), pp. 65-78 in Zootaxa 4244 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/400438

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZISP , ZMB
Family
Scincidae
Genus
Lygosoma
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
ZISP 9144 , ZMB 14661, 14662, ZMB 15204, 15204
Order
Squamata
Phylum
Chordata
Species
impar
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype

References

  • Werner, F. (1898) Vorlaufige Mittheilung uber die von Herrn Prof. F. Dahl im Bismarck-Archipel gesammelten Reptilien und Batrachier. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 21 (571), 552 - 556.
  • Ineich, I. & Zug, G. R. (1991) Nomenclatural status of Emoia cyanura (Lacertilia, Scincidae) populations in the central Pacific. Copeia, 1991 (4), 1132 - 1136.
  • Bauer, A., Shea, G. & Gunther, R. (2003) An annotated catalogue of the types of scincid lizards (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae) in the collection of the Museums fur Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (ZMB). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde zu Berlin, 79 (2), 253 - 321.