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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FE8DFF3295766DC0" bold="true" box="[315,586,222,247]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Lerista lineopunctulata</emphasis>
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(
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)
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and assignment of northern populations to
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<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FF21FEEE951C6C2C" authority="(Gunther, 1867)" baseAuthorityName="Gunther" baseAuthorityYear="1867" box="[151,544,258,283]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lerista" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="miopus">
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FF21FEEE96766C2C" bold="true" box="[151,330,258,283]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Lerista miopus</emphasis>
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(
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)
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.
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<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FD83FEEE94A36C2C" authority="Gray, 1839" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1839" box="[565,927,258,283]" class="Squamata" family="Scincidae" genus="Rhodona" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="punctata">
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FD83FEEE94376C2C" box="[565,779,258,283]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Rhodona punctata</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="41304B56FFE7B953FCADFEEF94A36C2C" author="Gray" box="[795,927,259,283]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" refString="Gray, J. E. (1839) XXXVIII. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species (contd.). The Annals of Natural History, 2, 331 - 337. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933909512395" type="journal article" year="1839">Gray, 1839</bibRefCitation>
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(type locality ‘Australia’), was placed in synonymy of
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FE8DFECB95316C08" box="[315,525,294,319]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">L. lineopunctulata</emphasis>
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by H. G. Cogger in
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Cogger
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FCDAFECB94956C08" box="[876,937,294,319]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">et al.</emphasis>
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(1983)
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. Although it was published before
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FF21FEA696CA6C54" box="[151,502,330,355]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Brachystopus lineopunctulatus</emphasis>
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, Cogger
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FC21FEA094E86C54" box="[919,980,330,355]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">et al.</emphasis>
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considered
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FBD0FEA093D06C54" box="[1126,1260,332,355]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">R. punctata</emphasis>
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to be a junior homonym of
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<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FE9BFE83959D6CB0" authority="Linnaeus, 1758" authorityName="Linnaeus" authorityYear="1758" box="[301,673,366,391]" class="Reptilia" family="Lacertidae" genus="Lacerta" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="punctata">
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FE9BFE8396D26CB1" box="[301,494,367,390]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Lacerta punctata</emphasis>
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and therefore unavailable.
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<bibRefCitation id="41304B56FFE7B953FC64FE8293CF6CB0" author="Dumeril" box="[978,1267,366,391]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" refString="Dumeril, A. M. C. & Bibron, G. (1839) Erpetologie Generale, ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Uol. 8. Roret, Paris, 792 pp." type="book" year="1839">Duméril & Bibron (1839)</bibRefCitation>
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recognised the close similarity between
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FE07FE78950F6C9C" box="[433,563,404,427]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">R. punctata</emphasis>
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and their
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<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FD10FE7894BD6C9C" authorityName="Dumeril & Bibron" authorityYear="1839" box="[678,897,402,427]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Brachystopus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lineopunctulatus">
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FD10FE7894BD6C9C" box="[678,897,402,427]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">B. lineopunctulatus</emphasis>
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, stating that were it not for the widely different localities (Australia vs. the Cape of Good Hope), they would believe them to be the same. Unfortunately, the African locality was in error and they were in fact describing the same taxon (
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<bibRefCitation id="41304B56FFE7B953FBE7FE3792046CC4" author="Cogger" box="[1105,1336,474,499]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" refString="Cogger, H. G., Cameron, E. E. & Cogger, H. M. (1983) Z oological Catalogue of Australia. Uol. 1. Amphibia and Reptilia. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 313 pp." type="book" year="1983">
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Cogger
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FB04FE3093D36CC4" box="[1202,1263,474,499]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">et al.</emphasis>
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1983
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). Gray’s description of the genus
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FE75FE1295146F20" box="[451,552,510,535]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Rhodona</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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states the taxon to have the following limb arrangement: ‘the front ones rudimentary, short, small, conical, undivided, ending in a simple claw, hinder small, weak, with a distinct knee, and ending in two very unequal clawed toes’. This description immediately precedes the description of
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<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FAA7FDAB92A96F69" authorityName="Linnaeus" authorityYear="1758" box="[1297,1429,583,606]" class="Reptilia" family="Lacertidae" genus="Lacerta" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="punctata">
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FAA7FDAB92A96F69" box="[1297,1429,583,606]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">R. punctata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, which is the only species assigned to the genus described. Images of the syntypes lodged at the British Museum, kindly supplied by H. G. Cogger, show a group of five lizards with distinctly visible forelimb stumps and two toes on the hindlimb. Although the image available to us of the
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<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FCECFD5E93846FFC" authorityName="Dumeril & Bibron" authorityYear="1839" box="[858,1208,690,715]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Brachystopus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lineopunctulatus">
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FCECFD5E93846FFC" box="[858,1208,690,715]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Brachystopus lineopunctulatus</emphasis>
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type (
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<figureCitation id="BD9A2A22FFE7B953FAB1FD5E92736FFC" box="[1287,1359,690,715]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="10.[151,250,1041,1063]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,193,1020]" captionTargetId="figure@10.[151,1436,193,1020]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURE 4. MNHP 1246, holotype of Brachystopus lineopunctulatus Duméril and Bibron, 1839. Photo by H. G. Cogger." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/892941/files/figure.png" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
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, again supplied by H. G. Cogger) does not show the forelimbs clearly, the colour pattern is again of distinct, heavy longitudinal lines along the dorsum. The type of
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<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FD7BFD1093246E24" authority="Gray, 1841" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1841" box="[717,1048,762,787]" class="Squamata" family="Scincidae" genus="Ronia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="catenulata">
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FD7BFD1094AC6E24" box="[717,912,762,787]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Ronia catenulata</emphasis>
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is lost (
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Cogger
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FB62FD1092336E24" box="[1236,1295,762,787]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">et al.</emphasis>
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1983
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). This species was described from material with a locality only of ‘Western Australia’, and hence cannot be assigned to the northern or southern population with certainty. However, the generic description of
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FBD0FCA893956E6C" box="[1126,1193,836,859]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Ronia</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="41304B56FFE7B953FB06FCAF92126E6C" author="Gray" box="[1200,1326,835,859]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" refString="Gray, J. E. (1841) Description of some new species and four new genera of Reptiles from Western Australia, discovered by John Gould Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 7, 86 - 91. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745484109442670" type="journal article" year="1841">Gray, 1841</bibRefCitation>
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</taxonomicName>
|
||
, of which
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FF21FC8B960D6E48" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1841" box="[151,305,870,895]" class="Squamata" family="Scincidae" genus="Ronia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="catenulata">
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<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FF21FC8B960D6E48" box="[151,305,870,895]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">R. catenulata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
||
is the only species, gives ‘The front limbs very small, rudimentary, undivided; the hinder limbs moderately developed, ending in two very unequal toes, with distinct claws.’ The combination of a distinct forelimb, a hindlimb with two toes and a bold colour pattern, shared by these specimens, suggests strongly that all three names can be assigned to the southern population, and consequently, that
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FBB1FC3893E86EDC" baseAuthorityName="Dumeril & Bibron" baseAuthorityYear="1839" box="[1031,1236,978,1003]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lerista" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lineopunctulata">
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||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FBB1FC3893E86EDC" box="[1031,1236,978,1003]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">L. lineopunctulata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
||
is the appropriate name for this population by chronological priority.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
<paragraph id="251E36A7FFE7B953FF71FBF6957968AC" blockId="9.[151,1437,222,1939]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">
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The description of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FE17FBF695C66904" authority="Gunther, 1867" authorityName="Gunther" authorityYear="1867" box="[417,762,1050,1075]" class="Squamata" family="Scincidae" genus="Soridia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="miopus">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FE17FBF695716904" box="[417,589,1050,1075]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Soridia miopus</emphasis>
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||
<bibRefCitation id="41304B56FFE7B953FDE0FBF695C66904" author="Gunther" box="[598,762,1050,1075]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" refString="Gunther, A. (1867) Additions to the knowledge of Australian reptiles and fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 20, 45 - 68." type="journal article" year="1867">Günther, 1867</bibRefCitation>
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</taxonomicName>
|
||
gives ‘No free fore limbs, but there is a short longitudinal groove, in the upper end of which a minute tubercle (the first indication of an external limb) is visible; hind limb as long as the head, terminating in a single longish toe.’ This limb arrangement is typical of the northern population and not known in
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FED6FB6B95FD69A9" box="[352,705,1158,1183]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FED6FB6B951169A8" authority="Edwards, 2017" authorityName="Edwards" authorityYear="2017" box="[352,557,1158,1183]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lerista" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" sensu="stricto" species="lineopunctulata">L. lineopunctulata</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="0CE657CEFFE7B953FD82FB6B95FD69A9" box="[564,705,1159,1182]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" sensu="stricto">sensu stricto</taxonomicNameLabel>
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||
</emphasis>
|
||
. The
|
||
<typeStatus id="FA1A8805FFE7B953FCB6FB6B940C69A8" box="[768,816,1159,1183]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">type</typeStatus>
|
||
locality (Champion Bay, WA, approximately
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="40955060FFE7B953FA81FB6B92A069A8" box="[1335,1436,1158,1183]" direction="south" orientation="latitude" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" precision="925" value="-28.766666">28° 46' S</geoCoordinate>
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||
<geoCoordinate id="40955060FFE7B953FF21FB47962C69F4" box="[151,272,1194,1219]" direction="east" orientation="longitude" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" precision="925" value="114.6">114° 36' E</geoCoordinate>
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||
) places it well within the range of the northern population. This is also the case with
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FB53FB40969C69D0" authority="Werner, 1910" authorityName="Werner" authorityYear="1910" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lygosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="bipes" subSpecies="concolor">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FB53FB4097C769D0" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Lygosoma bipes concolor</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="41304B56FFE7B953FEB2FB23969C69D0" author="Werner" box="[260,416,1231,1255]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" refString="Werner, F. (1910) Reptilia (Geckonidae und Scincidae). In: W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer (Eds.), Die Fauna Sudwest- Australiens. Gustav Fischer, Jena, pp. 451 - 493." type="book chapter" year="1910">Werner, 1910</bibRefCitation>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(from Denham, WA, approximately
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="40955060FFE7B953FCFDFB22948969D0" box="[843,949,1230,1255]" direction="south" orientation="latitude" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" precision="925" value="-25.916666">25° 55' S</geoCoordinate>
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="40955060FFE7B953FC08FB23930069D0" box="[958,1084,1231,1255]" direction="east" orientation="longitude" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" precision="925" value="113.53333">113° 32' E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
). The description of this taxon cites “die anscheinend kürzeren Gliedmaâen sind anscheinend genügende Unterschiede von
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FB11FB18923C683C" baseAuthorityName="Fischer" baseAuthorityYear="1882" box="[1191,1280,1266,1291]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lygosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bipes">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FB11FB18923C683C" box="[1191,1280,1266,1291]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">L. bipes</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.” [the shorter limbs diagnose it from
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FE17FAFB96C06818" baseAuthorityName="Fischer" baseAuthorityYear="1882" box="[417,508,1302,1327]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lygosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bipes">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FE17FAFB96C06818" box="[417,508,1302,1327]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">L. bipes</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
]. As
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FD8AFAFB94716818" authority="(Fischer, 1882)" baseAuthorityName="Fischer" baseAuthorityYear="1882" box="[572,845,1302,1327]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lygosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bipes">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FD8AFAFB95AB6818" box="[572,663,1302,1327]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">L. bipes</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="41304B56FFE7B953FD11FAFA94786818" author="Fischer" box="[679,836,1302,1327]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" refString="Fischer, J. G. (1882) Herpetologische Bemerkungen. Archiv fuer Naturgeschichte, 48, 281 - 302." type="journal article" year="1882">Fischer, 1882</bibRefCitation>
|
||
)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has no forelimbs, it can be assumed this is also the case with
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FEBAFAD0968C6864" authorityName="Werner" authorityYear="1910" box="[268,432,1338,1363]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lygosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="bipes" subSpecies="concolor">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FEBAFAD0968C6864" box="[268,432,1338,1363]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">L. b. concolor</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. We have examined the
|
||
<typeStatus id="FA1A8805FFE7B953FD65FAD7943F6864" box="[723,771,1339,1363]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">type</typeStatus>
|
||
of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FC99FAD093AF6864" authority="Glauert, 1962" authorityName="Glauert" authorityYear="1962" box="[815,1171,1338,1363]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lygosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="nigriceps" subGenus="Rhodona">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FC99FAD094D06864" box="[815,1004,1339,1363]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">L. (R.) nigriceps</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="41304B56FFE7B953FC40FAD693AF6864" author="Glauert" box="[1014,1171,1338,1363]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" refString="Glauert, L. (1962) Herpetological Miscellanea. XIII. A new skink from the North-West Cape, Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist, 8, 86 - 87." type="journal article" year="1962">Glauert, 1962</bibRefCitation>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(WAMR14039) and it conforms well with the morphology of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FDC2FAB395D56841" authorityName="Gunther" authorityYear="1867" box="[628,745,1375,1398]" class="Squamata" family="Scincidae" genus="Soridia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="miopus">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FDC2FAB395D56841" box="[628,745,1375,1398]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">L. miopus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and was collected within this taxon’s known distribution (Vlaming Head,
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="40955060FFE7B953FEE4FA6F968468AC" box="[338,440,1411,1435]" direction="south" orientation="latitude" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" precision="925" value="-21.8">21° 48' S</geoCoordinate>
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="40955060FFE7B953FE09FA6F950468AC" box="[447,568,1410,1435]" direction="east" orientation="longitude" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" precision="925" value="114.1">114° 06' E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="6DBB652CFFE7B953FF78FA4A95FD6AA4" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" type="description">
|
||
<paragraph id="251E36A7FFE7B953FF78FA4A95FD6AA4" blockId="9.[151,1437,222,1939]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FF78FA4A94AE6888" bold="true" box="[206,914,1446,1471]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">
|
||
Designation of a neotype for
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FD9FFA4A94B26888" authority="Gunther, 1867" authorityName="Gunther" authorityYear="1867" box="[553,910,1446,1471]" class="Squamata" family="Scincidae" genus="Soridia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="miopus">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FD9FFA4A95E46888" bold="true" box="[553,728,1446,1471]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Soridia miopus</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="41304B56FFE7B953FD57FA4A94B26888" author="Gunther" box="[737,910,1446,1471]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" refString="Gunther, A. (1867) Additions to the knowledge of Australian reptiles and fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 20, 45 - 68." type="journal article" year="1867">Günther, 1867</bibRefCitation>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
The holotype for
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FBD6FA4B93F16889" authorityName="Gunther" authorityYear="1867" box="[1120,1229,1447,1470]" class="Squamata" family="Scincidae" genus="Soridia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="miopus">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FBD6FA4B93F16889" box="[1120,1229,1447,1470]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">S. miopus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is purported to be at the British Museum of Natural History, registered as 1946.8.15.60 (see
|
||
<figureCitation id="BD9A2A22FFE7B953FC5AFA26930D68D4" box="[1004,1073,1482,1507]" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="10.[151,250,1886,1908]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,1113,1864]" captionTargetId="figure@10.[151,1436,1113,1864]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURE 5. Purported type of Soridia miopus Günther, 1867, BMNH 1946.8.15.60. Photo by H. G. Cogger." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/892943/files/figure.png" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
|
||
). It was originally registered in 1864 as 64.7.22.2 and then re-registered in 1946 after retrieval from safe storage during World War II (G. Shea, pers. comm.). This specimen was examined by H.G. Cogger in 1970, who concluded that it cannot be the type for
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FF21F9DA96746B79" authorityName="Gunther" authorityYear="1867" box="[151,328,1590,1615]" class="Squamata" family="Scincidae" genus="Soridia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="miopus">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FF21F9DA96746B79" box="[151,328,1590,1615]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Soridia miopus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
on the basis of comparing the type description with its actual appearance. Specifically, the specimen is half the length given in the description, has two toes on the hindlimb (vs. one), no forelimbs (vs. “a minute tubercle”) and has a broad black lateral band (vs. simply “four very indistinct stripes of minute blackish dots along the dorsal series of scales”). In addition, Boulenger gives a very similar description (as
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FA9CF94897D46BE9" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lygosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="miopus">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FA9CF94897D46BE9" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Lygosoma miopus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
) to Günther in his
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FE09F92A94C86BE9" box="[447,1012,1734,1759]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Catalogue Of The Lizards Of The British Museum</emphasis>
|
||
(1887), suggesting strongly that both authors examined a different specimen to the one currently identified as the type. Cogger identified the specimen in 1970 as
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FF45F8E396B86A10" baseAuthorityName="Fischer" baseAuthorityYear="1882" box="[243,388,1806,1831]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lerista" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bipes">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FF45F8E396B86A10" box="[243,388,1806,1831]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">Lerista bipes</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. It was for these reasons that
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="41304B56FFE7B953FD78F8E394936A10" box="[718,943,1806,1831]" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" refString="Cogger, H. G., Cameron, E. E. & Cogger, H. M. (1983) Z oological Catalogue of Australia. Uol. 1. Amphibia and Reptilia. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 313 pp." type="book">
|
||
Cogger
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FC91F8E394626A10" box="[807,862,1806,1831]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">et al.</emphasis>
|
||
(1983)
|
||
</bibRefCitation>
|
||
considered the whereabouts of the true type of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E2A14D24FFE7B953FF03F8DF961F6A7C" box="[181,291,1843,1867]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Lygosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="120" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="miopus">
|
||
<emphasis id="17D5EAB5FFE7B953FF03F8DF961F6A7C" box="[181,291,1843,1867]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="120">S. miopus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
as unknown, and it does not seem to have been located in the years since (P. Campbell, BMNH, pers. comm.). Therefore, to stabilise nomenclature we nominate a neotype collected from the type locality and held at the Western Australian Museum, WAMR136122.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
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