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<taxonomicName authority="GREER, 1974" authorityName="GREER" authorityYear="1974" box="[968,1301,1490,1515]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="14" pageNumber="234" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[968,1147,1491,1514]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="234">PRASINOHAEMA</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Greer AE" box="[1154,1301,1490,1515]" pageId="14" pageNumber="234" pagination="1 - 67" refId="ref44557" refString="Greer AE. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 31: 1 - 67." type="book chapter" year="1974">GREER, 1974</bibRefCitation>
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<paragraph blockId="14.[1074,1195,1529,1554]" box="[1074,1195,1529,1554]" pageId="14" pageNumber="234">(CLADE II)</paragraph>
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(
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; SUPPORTING INFORMATION,
<figureCitation box="[1240,1324,1567,1592]" captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="15.[145,223,1530,1552]" captionTargetBox="[145,1425,195,1491]" captionTargetId="figure-158@15.[145,1425,195,1491]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 6. Pictures in life of (A) Lobulia brongersmai (BPBM 34733); (B) Lobulia elegans (BPBM 18692); (C) Lobulia fortis (paratype; BPBM 41130); (D) Lobulia huonensis (holotype; BPBM 40322); (E) Lobulia lobulus (BPBM 47837); (F) Lobulia marmorata (holotype; BPBM 34150). Images A, B, F by Fred Kraus, images CE by Allen Allison." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6530711" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6530711/files/figure.png" pageId="14" pageNumber="234">FIG. S6</figureCitation>
;
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)
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<taxonomicName authority="Greer, 1974" authorityName="GREER" authorityYear="1974" box="[827,1155,1608,1629]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="14" pageNumber="234" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[827,1002,1608,1629]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="234">Prasinohaema</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Greer AE" box="[1013,1155,1608,1629]" pageId="14" pageNumber="234" pagination="1 - 67" refId="ref44557" refString="Greer AE. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 31: 1 - 67." type="book chapter" year="1974">Greer, 1974</bibRefCitation>
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.
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(31): 167.
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<emphasis box="[827,986,1694,1715]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="234">
<typeStatus box="[827,884,1694,1715]" pageId="14" pageNumber="234">Type</typeStatus>
species:
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<taxonomicName authority="Parker, 1936" authorityName="Parker" authorityYear="1936" box="[1001,1396,1693,1715]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lygosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="14" pageNumber="234" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavipes">
<emphasis box="[1001,1228,1693,1715]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="234">Lygosoma flavipes</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Parker HW" box="[1239,1396,1693,1715]" pageId="14" pageNumber="234" pagination="66 - 93" refId="ref45739" refString="Parker HW. 1936. A collection of reptiles and amphibians from the mountains of British New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 10 17: 66 - 93." type="journal article" year="1936">Parker, 1936</bibRefCitation>
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, by original designation.
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<emphasis box="[827,951,1787,1808]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="234">Diagnosis:</emphasis>
Large (adult SVL up to
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; Meiri, 2018) arboreal skinks with short limbs (forelimbs 27.731.4% of SVL, hindlimbs 29.934.1% of SVL); lobules present on anterior edge of ear opening; two pairs of chin shields in medial contact; three supralabials posterior to subocular supralabial; chin shields separated from infralabials by a row of genials; lower eyelid with window variable in size, opaqueness and scaliness; temporal region fragmented (&gt; 3 scales); nasal scale undivided; frontoparietals unfused; viviparous; litter size 29; green blood serum and tissues; tail prehensile with a glandular tip; subdigital lamellae greatly expanded basally.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[145,249,1530,1552]" pageId="15" pageNumber="235">Figure 6.</emphasis>
Pictures in life of (A)
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<emphasis box="[483,701,1530,1552]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="235">Lobulia brongersmai</emphasis>
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(BPBM 34733); (B)
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<emphasis box="[910,1074,1530,1552]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="235">Lobulia elegans</emphasis>
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(BPBM 18692); (C)
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<emphasis box="[1283,1424,1530,1552]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="235">Lobulia fortis</emphasis>
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(paratype; BPBM 41130); (D)
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<emphasis box="[458,652,1560,1582]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="235">Lobulia huonensis</emphasis>
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(holotype; BPBM 40322); (E)
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Loveridge" baseAuthorityYear="1945" box="[966,1132,1560,1582]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lobulia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="15" pageNumber="235" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lobulus">
<emphasis box="[966,1132,1560,1582]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="235">Lobulia lobulus</emphasis>
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(BPBM 47837); (F)
<taxonomicName authorityName="Slavenko &amp; Tamar &amp; Tallowin &amp; Kraus &amp; Allison &amp; Carranza &amp; Meiri" authorityYear="2022" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lobulia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="15" pageNumber="235" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="marmorata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="235">Lobulia marmorata</emphasis>
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(holotype; BPBM 34150). Images A, B, F by Fred Kraus, images CE by Allen Allison.
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<taxonomicName authorityName="GREER" authorityYear="1974" box="[833,1034,1753,1775]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="15" pageNumber="235" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[833,1034,1753,1775]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="235">Prasinohaema</emphasis>
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differs from
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<emphasis box="[1248,1356,1753,1775]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="235">Lobulia</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[809,964,1785,1806]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="235">Papuascincus</emphasis>
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by having green blood serum and tissues (
<bibRefCitation author="Greer AE" box="[817,954,1815,1836]" pageId="15" pageNumber="235" pagination="1 - 67" refId="ref44557" refString="Greer AE. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 31: 1 - 67." type="book chapter" year="1974">Greer, 1974</bibRefCitation>
), a prehensile tail with a glandular tip and basally expanded subdigital lamellae, by having the chin shields separated from the infralabials by a row of genials (vs. chin shields abutting the infralabials) and by having a fragmented temporal region (vs. the standard three-scale arrangement). It further differs from
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<emphasis box="[392,547,1751,1772]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="236">Papuascincus</emphasis>
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by having two pairs of chin shields in medial contact (vs. one), unfused (vs. fused) frontoparietals, an undivided (vs. divided) nasal scale and by its viviparous (vs. oviparous) reproductive mode.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[163,267,1520,1542]" pageId="16" pageNumber="236">Figure 7.</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[278,442,1520,1542]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="236">Lobulia lobulus</emphasis>
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holotype (MCZ R-47067), in (A) dorsal view, (B) ventral view, (C) lateral view of head, (D) dorsal view of head and (E) ventral view of head. Images by Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
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<emphasis box="[827,1040,1658,1679]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="236">Species included:</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authority="(Parker, 1936)" baseAuthorityName="Parker" baseAuthorityYear="1936" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="16" pageNumber="236" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavipes">
<emphasis box="[1054,1335,1658,1679]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="236">Prasinohaema flavipes</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName authority="(Loveridge, 1897)" baseAuthorityName="Loveridge" baseAuthorityYear="1897" box="[901,1440,1689,1711]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="16" pageNumber="236" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="prehensicauda">
<emphasis box="[901,1237,1689,1710]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="236">Prasinohaema prehensicauda</emphasis>
(Loveridge, 1897)
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.
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<emphasis box="[827,1080,1751,1773]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="236">Species incertae sedis:</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authority="(Smith, 1937)" baseAuthorityName="Smith" baseAuthorityYear="1937" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="16" pageNumber="236" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="parkeri">
<emphasis box="[1093,1350,1751,1772]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="236">Prasinohaema parkeri</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
was originally placed in
<taxonomicName authorityName="GREER" authorityYear="1974" box="[1173,1337,1782,1803]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="16" pageNumber="236" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[1173,1337,1782,1803]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="236">Prasinohaema</emphasis>
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by
<bibRefCitation author="Greer AE" pageId="16" pageNumber="236" pagination="1 - 67" refId="ref44557" refString="Greer AE. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 31: 1 - 67." type="book chapter" year="1974">Greer (1974)</bibRefCitation>
, seemingly based on having basally enlarged subdigital lamellae and transverse cross-bands on the dorsum, a coloration pattern it shares with
<emphasis italics="true" lastPageId="17" lastPageNumber="237" pageId="16" pageNumber="236">
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Loveridge" baseAuthorityYear="1897" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" lastPageId="17" lastPageNumber="237" order="Squamata" pageId="16" pageNumber="236" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="prehensicauda">Pr. prehensicauda</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis box="[362,484,1051,1073]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. flavipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but also with
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<emphasis box="[647,761,1052,1073]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. semoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
which is phylogenetically distant from the former two species (
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). However, no information was given in
<bibRefCitation author="Smith MA" box="[145,295,1143,1165]" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" pagination="213 - 234" refId="ref46408" refString="Smith MA. 1937. A review of the genus Lygosoma (Scincidae: Reptilia) and its allies. Records of the Indian Museum 39: 213 - 234." type="journal article" year="1937">Smith (1937)</bibRefCitation>
regarding the condition of its tail or the colour of its blood serum or tissues, data for the latter of which would not have been available for Greer in his revision (
<bibRefCitation author="Greer AE" box="[295,428,1235,1256]" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" pagination="1 - 67" refId="ref44557" refString="Greer AE. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 31: 1 - 67." type="book chapter" year="1974">Greer, 1974</bibRefCitation>
) since the species was never collected after its original description. Furthermore,
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<emphasis box="[145,262,1296,1318]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. parkeri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
lacks lobules on the anterior edge of the ear opening and has a unique arrangement of the frontal (contacting the three vs. two anteriormost supraoculars) and prefrontals (fused with the anterior loreals).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. parkeri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is only known from its
<typeStatus box="[512,562,1419,1440]" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">type</typeStatus>
specimen (
<bibRefCitation author="Meiri S &amp; Bauer AM &amp; Allison A &amp; Castro-Herrera F &amp; Chirio L &amp; Colli G &amp; Das I &amp; Doan TM &amp; Glaw F &amp; Grismer LL &amp; Hoogmoed M &amp; Kraus F &amp; LeBreton M &amp; Meirte D &amp; Nagy ZT &amp; Nogueira CdC &amp; Oliver P &amp; Pauwels OSG &amp; Donoso D &amp; Shea G &amp; Sindaco R &amp; Tallowin OJS &amp; Caravajal O &amp; Trape J-F &amp; Uetz P &amp; Wagner P &amp; Wang Y &amp; Ziegler T &amp; Roll U" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" pagination="262 - 273" refId="ref45416" refString="Meiri S, Bauer AM, Allison A, Castro-Herrera F, Chirio L, Colli G, Das I, Doan TM, Glaw F, Grismer LL, Hoogmoed M, Kraus F, LeBreton M, Meirte D, Nagy ZT, Nogueira CdC, Oliver P, Pauwels OSG, Pincheira- Donoso D, Shea G, Sindaco R, Tallowin OJS, Torres- Caravajal O, Trape J-F, Uetz P, Wagner P, Wang Y, Ziegler T, Roll U. 2018. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24: 262 - 273." type="journal article" year="2018">
Meiri
<emphasis box="[145,198,1450,1471]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">et al.</emphasis>
, 2018
</bibRefCitation>
) collected in the Utakwa River (
<bibRefCitation author="Smith MA" box="[613,747,1450,1472]" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" pagination="213 - 234" refId="ref46408" refString="Smith MA. 1937. A review of the genus Lygosoma (Scincidae: Reptilia) and its allies. Records of the Indian Museum 39: 213 - 234." type="journal article" year="1937">Smith, 1937</bibRefCitation>
), presumably along the southern slopes of the Sudirman Range (
<bibRefCitation author="Wollaston AFR" box="[239,431,1511,1533]" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" pagination="248 - 268" refId="ref46813" refString="Wollaston AFR. 1914. An expedition to Dutch New Guinea. The Geographical Journal 43: 248 - 268." type="journal article" year="1914">Wollaston, 1914</bibRefCitation>
). Although the presence of basally expanded subdigital lamellae and cross-bands may suggest an affinity with
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Loveridge" baseAuthorityYear="1897" box="[497,708,1572,1594]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="prehensicauda">
<emphasis box="[497,708,1572,1594]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. prehensicauda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Parker" baseAuthorityYear="1936" box="[145,274,1603,1625]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavipes">
<emphasis box="[145,274,1603,1625]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. flavipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, these traits are also common in at least some other New Guinean skinks (e.g. basally expanded subdigital lamellae in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Boulenger" baseAuthorityYear="1895" box="[411,557,1664,1686]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lipinia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="longiceps">
<emphasis box="[411,557,1664,1686]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Li. longiceps</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, cross-bands and basally expanded subdigital lamellae in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Oudemans" baseAuthorityYear="1894" box="[587,699,1696,1717]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="semoni">
<emphasis box="[587,699,1696,1717]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. semoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), and therefore its placement in
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<emphasis box="[447,611,1726,1747]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Prasinohaema</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is uncertain. Similarly, the presence of green blood serum and tissues alone would not be enough to place it in
<taxonomicName authorityName="GREER" authorityYear="1974" box="[593,754,1787,1808]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[593,754,1787,1808]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Prasinohaema</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, as both
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Oudemans" baseAuthorityYear="1894" box="[235,351,1818,1839]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="semoni">
<emphasis box="[235,351,1818,1839]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. semoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis box="[408,515,1818,1839]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. virens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
possess this trait but are otherwise morphologically and phylogenetically distant from
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<emphasis box="[287,469,1879,1901]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. prehensicada</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Parker" baseAuthorityYear="1936" box="[521,641,1879,1901]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavipes">
<emphasis box="[521,641,1879,1901]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. flavipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation box="[654,747,1879,1901]" captionStart-0="Figure 1" captionStart-1="Figure 2" captionStartId-0="7.[145,225,1805,1827]" captionStartId-1="8.[163,241,1286,1308]" captionTargetBox-0="[213,1357,199,1762]" captionTargetBox-1="[167,1439,199,1243]" captionTargetId-0="figure-28@7.[209,1361,195,1765]" captionTargetId-1="figure-202@8.[163,1443,195,1247]" captionTargetPageId-0="7" captionTargetPageId-1="8" captionText-0="Figure 1. A. Bayesian Inference phylogenetic tree based on the concatenated data set of three mitochondrial and two nuclear markers, with BI posterior probabilities and ML bootstrap support values shown at each node, respectively. B, Bayesian Inference multilocus species tree, with BI posterior probabilities shown at each node. Colours in both panels correspond to each of seven clades representing seven different genera: Lobulia (Clade I, red), Prasinohaema (Clade II, green), Nubeoscincus (Clade III, light blue), Papuascincus (Clade IV, blue), Palaia (Clade V, orange), Alpinoscincus (Clade VI, yellow) and Ornithuroscincus (Clade VII, purple)." captionText-1="Figure 2. Time-calibrated phylogenetic tree, based on one specimen per species, with posterior probability values indicated above the nodes. Blue bars represent 95% HPD of divergence date estimations. Colours correspond to the same clade assignments as in Figure 1. The matrix on the right represents character states of nine morphological characters for each species. Blank squares represent missing data." figureDoi-0="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6530697" figureDoi-1="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6530699" httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/6530697/files/figure.png" httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/6530699/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Figs 12</figureCitation>
).
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="17.[809,1427,197,372]" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">
<emphasis box="[809,973,197,218]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Distribution:</emphasis>
The two species in the genus (
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. flavipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Loveridge" baseAuthorityYear="1897" box="[955,1159,228,249]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="prehensicauda">
<emphasis box="[955,1159,228,249]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. prehensicauda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) are widespread in the montane regions of
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.
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Loveridge" baseAuthorityYear="1897" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="prehensicauda">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Prasinohaema prehensicauda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is present in the New
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Highlands and on the Papuan Peninsula, whereas
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Parker" baseAuthorityYear="1936" box="[1251,1374,320,341]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavipes">
<emphasis box="[1251,1374,320,341]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. flavipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
also occurs on the Huon Peninsula.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="17.[809,1428,400,943]" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">
<emphasis box="[809,920,400,421]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Remarks:</emphasis>
Two other species are currently assigned to the genus
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<emphasis box="[958,1123,430,451]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Prasinohaema</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Oudemans" baseAuthorityYear="1894" box="[1136,1254,431,452]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="semoni">
<emphasis box="[1136,1254,431,452]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. semoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Peters" baseAuthorityYear="1881" box="[1312,1418,431,452]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="virens">
<emphasis box="[1312,1418,431,452]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. virens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. These species emerge in our analyses as phylogenetically distant from the
<typeStatus box="[1003,1052,492,513]" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">type</typeStatus>
species of the genus,
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Parker" baseAuthorityYear="1936" box="[1299,1425,492,513]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="flavipes">
<emphasis box="[1299,1425,492,513]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. flavipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation box="[817,883,522,544]" captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="7.[145,225,1805,1827]" captionTargetBox="[213,1357,199,1762]" captionTargetId="figure-28@7.[209,1361,195,1765]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="Figure 1. A. Bayesian Inference phylogenetic tree based on the concatenated data set of three mitochondrial and two nuclear markers, with BI posterior probabilities and ML bootstrap support values shown at each node, respectively. B, Bayesian Inference multilocus species tree, with BI posterior probabilities shown at each node. Colours in both panels correspond to each of seven clades representing seven different genera: Lobulia (Clade I, red), Prasinohaema (Clade II, green), Nubeoscincus (Clade III, light blue), Papuascincus (Clade IV, blue), Palaia (Clade V, orange), Alpinoscincus (Clade VI, yellow) and Ornithuroscincus (Clade VII, purple)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6530697" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6530697/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Rodriguez ZB &amp; Perkins SL &amp; Austin CC" box="[898,1154,522,544]" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" pagination="5017" refId="ref46100" refString="Rodriguez ZB, Perkins SL, Austin CC. 2018. Multiple origins of green blood in New Guinea lizards. Science Advances 4: eaao 5017." type="journal article" year="2018">
Rodriguez
<emphasis box="[1025,1083,522,544]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">et al.</emphasis>
, 2018
</bibRefCitation>
), rendering the former concept of the genus polyphyletic. They also differ widely morphologically (
<figureCitation box="[1107,1175,584,606]" captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="8.[163,241,1286,1308]" captionTargetBox="[167,1439,199,1243]" captionTargetId="figure-202@8.[163,1443,195,1247]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="Figure 2. Time-calibrated phylogenetic tree, based on one specimen per species, with posterior probability values indicated above the nodes. Blue bars represent 95% HPD of divergence date estimations. Colours correspond to the same clade assignments as in Figure 1. The matrix on the right represents character states of nine morphological characters for each species. Blank squares represent missing data." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6530699" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6530699/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
), reproductively (
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. virens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is oviparous, whereas
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Oudemans" baseAuthorityYear="1894" box="[1155,1277,615,636]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="semoni">
<emphasis box="[1155,1277,615,636]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. semoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis box="[1293,1425,614,636]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. flavipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Loveridge" baseAuthorityYear="1897" box="[861,1071,645,667]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="prehensicauda">
<emphasis box="[861,1071,645,667]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. prehensicauda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are viviparous;
<figureCitation box="[1265,1332,645,667]" captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="8.[163,241,1286,1308]" captionTargetBox="[167,1439,199,1243]" captionTargetId="figure-202@8.[163,1443,195,1247]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="Figure 2. Time-calibrated phylogenetic tree, based on one specimen per species, with posterior probability values indicated above the nodes. Blue bars represent 95% HPD of divergence date estimations. Colours correspond to the same clade assignments as in Figure 1. The matrix on the right represents character states of nine morphological characters for each species. Blank squares represent missing data." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6530699" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6530699/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
) and in elevational range (
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<emphasis box="[1016,1130,676,697]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. semoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis box="[1184,1288,676,697]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. virens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are lowland species, whereas
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<emphasis box="[1001,1124,706,728]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. flavipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Loveridge" baseAuthorityYear="1897" box="[1181,1381,706,728]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="prehensicauda">
<emphasis box="[1181,1381,706,728]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. prehensicauda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are montane species;
<figureCitation box="[1020,1088,737,759]" captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="12.[163,243,934,956]" captionTargetBox="[166,1446,198,891]" captionTargetId="figure-26@12.[163,1449,195,894]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="Figure 4. Ancestral-state reconstruction of elevations occupied by this clade of skinks. A, tips are coloured according to the known minimum elevation (m a.s.l.) for each species. Pie charts at each node denote the posterior probabilities of each state, based on 100 simulated character histories. B, phenogram showing evolution of minimum elevation along the timecalibrated phylogeny under a BM model, with branches coloured according to minimum elevation (m a.s.l.)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6530703" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6530703/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
). Many of these differences, particularly in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Peters" baseAuthorityYear="1881" box="[975,1076,768,789]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="virens">
<emphasis box="[975,1076,768,789]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. virens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, were mentioned by Greer even in his original description of the genus (
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). Therefore, we stress that
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<emphasis box="[1108,1275,829,850]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Prasinohaema</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is in need of taxonomic revision.
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Oudemans" baseAuthorityYear="1894" box="[1027,1271,860,881]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Prasinohaema" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="17" pageNumber="237" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="semoni">
<emphasis box="[1027,1271,860,881]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Prasinohaema semoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis box="[1323,1425,860,881]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="237">Pr. virens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
likely need to be assigned to new genera, although this is beyond the scope of the current work.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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