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<emphasis id="B940EAA56167CC0DFF4C23855829F962" bold="true" box="[199,322,1732,1758]" pageId="7" pageNumber="68">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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can be distinguished from other congeners by a combination of the following morphological characteristics: small size in adults (SVL up to
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); 2629 smooth midbody scale rows; 5567 ventral scale rows; 5770 paravertebral scale rows; usually six, sometimes seven supraciliaries; prefrontals conditions (contacted, contacting at a point, and separated) appear about the same; tympanum deeply recessed, and no ear lobules; forelimb and hindlimb length to SVL with 0.190.26 and 0.280.37, respectively; smooth lamellae beneath toe IV with 1317 lamellae; dorsolateral stripes often broken up by light spots and the width of which is uncertain, some clearly defined and 23.5 scale rows of dorsolateral stripes, both margins of the stripes are wavy; large, dark irregular spots densely scattered under the dorsolateral stripes (
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<emphasis id="B940EAA56168CC02FF1C26DC5878FC09" bold="true" box="[151,275,925,949]" pageId="8" pageNumber="69">FIGURE 5.</emphasis>
Dorsal (A) and lateral (B) views of the
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The squamation of
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males and
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females.
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<emphasis id="B940EAA56169CC03FF1C223D587FF828" bold="true" box="[151,276,1916,1940]" pageId="9" pageNumber="70">FIGURE 6.</emphasis>
Lateral (A), dorsal (B), and ventral (C) views of head scalation on the
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holotype (KUZ R47494). Abbreviations for scale characters: IL, infralabial; L, loreal; NU, nuchal; PNU, prenuchal; POS, postsubocular; PRO, preocular; PRSO, presubocular; SC, supraciliary; SL, supralabial; SO, supraocular.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C32E653C616ACC00FF4C25D75ADCFED9" pageId="10" pageNumber="71" type="distribution">
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FF4C25D7580AFF0C" bold="true" box="[199,353,150,176]" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">Distribution.</emphasis>
Yonagunijima Island, Yaeyama Group, Ryukyu Archipelago,
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. This species was collected only from its
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locality (
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B8B36B7616ACC00FF4C259E5ADCFED9" blockId="10.[151,1436,150,465]" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">
<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FF4C259E58EEFF44" bold="true" box="[199,389,222,249]" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">Natural history.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FE07259E5B2BFF45" box="[396,576,223,249]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">Scincella dunan</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FDCC259E5BCAFF45" bold="true" box="[583,673,223,249]" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">
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</emphasis>
is often found on the floor of broad-leaved forests, it is diurnal, and hides beneath leaf litter when approached (
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; Koizumi personal observation).
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Okada
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. (1992)
</bibRefCitation>
noted the reproductive traits of
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</emphasis>
at that time, with a positive correlation between female body size and clutch size (4
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), and that gravid females were present in March.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C32E653C616ACC04FF4C242E5AB3FBE5" lastPageId="14" lastPageNumber="75" pageId="10" pageNumber="71" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FF4C242E5825FE35" bold="true" box="[199,334,367,393]" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific name “dunan” is derived from an old local name of Yonagunijima Island, which is not commonly used as a place name now. This term refers to the difficulty involved in accessing the island because of the cliffs.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FF1C20A95878F9BC" bold="true" box="[151,275,1512,1536]" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">FIGURE 7.</emphasis>
Comparison of the dorsolateral stripes pattern in
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FC8D20A95AC3F9BC" box="[774,936,1512,1536]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">Scincella dunan</emphasis>
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(A),
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FBBF20A95DC3F9BC" box="[1076,1192,1512,1536]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">S. boettgeri</emphasis>
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(B),
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FB5720A95C05F9BC" box="[1244,1390,1512,1536]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">S. formosensis</emphasis>
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(C).
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FF4C236F5806F9F4" bold="true" box="[199,365,1582,1608]" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">Comparisons.</emphasis>
Morphological comparisons of
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FD68236F5A21F9F4" box="[739,842,1582,1608]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">Scincella</emphasis>
species
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found in the Southeast Asia and
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are given in
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. Among the Asian species,
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FC1E23135A9BF9D0" bold="true" box="[917,1008,1618,1644]" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">
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can be distinguished from
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FAA323125CF7F9D0" box="[1320,1436,1619,1645]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">S. reevesii</emphasis>
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of southern
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by the lack of ear lobules (none vs. yes), its lower number of SRBDLS (6 vs. 8), VS (5565 vs.
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males, 5867 vs.
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females) and PVS (5764 vs.
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males, 5770 vs.
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females), T4S (1317 vs.
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males, 1316 vs.
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females), and MBSR (2729 vs.
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males, 2629 vs.
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females); from
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FEEF23A258B5F940" box="[356,478,1762,1789]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">S. modesta</emphasis>
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of
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by its lower number of VS (5565 vs.
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males, 5867 vs.
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females) and PVS (5764 vs.
<quantity id="4CCC9B52616ACC00FE7A22475B3DF89C" box="[497,598,1798,1824]" metricMagnitude="0" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.6128999999999998" metricValueMax="1.7018" metricValueMin="1.524" pageId="10" pageNumber="71" unit="in" value="63.5" valueMax="67.0" valueMin="60.0">6067 in</quantity>
males, 5770 vs.
<quantity id="4CCC9B52616ACC00FCA222475AE4F89C" box="[809,911,1798,1825]" metricMagnitude="0" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.7018" metricValueMax="1.7526" metricValueMin="1.6509999999999998" pageId="10" pageNumber="71" unit="in" value="67.0" valueMax="69.0" valueMin="65.0">6569 in</quantity>
females), its large number of T4S (1317 vs.
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males, 1316 vs.
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females), and its greater number of SRB (≥ 2 or uncountable in all vs. &lt;
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almost all), dark dorsolateral stripes with light spots (present in all vs. none); from
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ACC00FBDD220E5C62F8D4" box="[1110,1289,1870,1897]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="71">S. huanrenensis</emphasis>
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of
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by its large FLL/SVL (0.210.26 vs.
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males, 0.190.24 vs.
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females) and HLL/SVL values (0.300.37 vs.
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males, 0.280.34 vs.
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females), lower number of VS (5565 vs.
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males, 5867 vs.
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females), PVS (5764 vs.
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males, 5770 vs.
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females), relatively large number of MBSR in females (2629 vs. 2426), greater number of SRBDLS (6 vs. 4), shape of upper margins of dorsolateral stripes (wave in almost all vs. straight in all), its pattern (with light spots vs. uniformly black); from
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ECC04FA0C25D65859FF69" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="75">S. vandenburghi</emphasis>
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in
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and Tsushima Island by comparatively its greater number of SRB (≥ 2 or uncountable in all vs. &lt;
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all), fewer number of VS (5565 vs.
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males, 5867 vs.
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females), PVS (5764 vs.
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males, 5770 vs.
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females). Phylogenetically,
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is closely related to
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ECC04FA84244259DEFEFC" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="75">S. formosensis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ECC04FF6624665804FEFD" box="[237,367,295,321]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="75">S. boettgeri</emphasis>
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(
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), but can be distinguished from
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by a combination characters: its statistically larger SVL in males (
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vs.
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), AGL (
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vs. 19.022.0 mm in males,
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vs.
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in females), statistically small FLL/SVL and HLL/SVL values in females (0.190.24 vs. 0.210.26, 0.280.34 vs. 0.300.37, respectively), statistically fewer T4S (1317 vs.
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males, 1316 vs.
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females), condition of PF (vs. separated in almost all), its comparatively greater number of SRB (≥ 2 or uncountable in all vs. &lt;
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almost all), and dark dorsolateral stripes with light spots (present in all vs. none). Morphologically,
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is most similar to
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<emphasis id="B940EAA5616ECC04FCD024BE5AB4FDA5" box="[859,991,511,537]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="75">S. boettgeri</emphasis>
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in the southern Ryukyus (Miyako and Yaeyama Group excluding Yonagunijima Island), but can be distinguished by a combination of: PF (vs. contacted with each other in almost all in the two Islands Group population), the dorsolateral stripes pattern. The condition of the dorsolateral stripes differ from other islands populations, especially from the axilla to the groin as a whole, or from the middle or further posterior to the groin (broken vs. not); often dark in color (vs. basically light dark brown), below the lateral stripes have many dark spots (vs. few dark pale brown spots), broken up by many scattered light spots, with less definite lower border, and cannot distinguish between stripe broken up by light spots and dark spots that are usually under the stripe (vs. even if light spots in the stripes, both upper and lower borders are clear, and in some cases, with a white line at the upper and/or lower border) (
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). In each Islands Group populations, it can be statistically distinguished by a combination of: larger SVL in females with Miyako Group population (
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vs.
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), and AGL in males with Miyako Group (
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vs.
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) and in females with Miyako and Yaeyama Group (
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vs.
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vs.
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, respectively); smaller FLL/ SVL values in females (0.190.24 vs. 0.200.25), its fewer number of T4S (1317 vs. 1418) with Miyako Group population; larger AGL in females (
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vs.
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), smaller FLL/SVL in males (0.210.26 vs. 0.210.28) and HLL/SVL values (0.300.37 vs.
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males and 0.280.34 vs.
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females), its fewer number of PVS (5764 vs.
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males, 5770 vs.
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females) and MBSR in females (2629 vs. 2730) with Yaeyama Group (excluding Yonagunijima Island) population.
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