Sigaloseps
| Sigaloseps | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Sauria or Lacertilia |
| Infraorder: | Scincomorpha |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Eugongylinae |
| Genus: | Sigaloseps Sadlier, 1987[1] |
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Sigaloseps is a genus of skinks which inhabit the moist, closed forest of southern New Caledonia.
Conservation status
There is some conservation concern for Sigaloseps because of mining activity taking place in the region.
Species
The following two species are recognized as being valid.[2]
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Sigaloseps.
Etymology
The specific name, deplanchei, is in honor of French naturalist Émile Deplanche.[3]
References
- ↑ Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/scincidae/eugongylinae.
- ↑ "Sigaloseps ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Sigaloseps deplanchei, p. 69).
Further reading
- Bavay ARJB. 1869. "Catalogue des Reptiles de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et description d'espèces nouvelles ". Mémoires Société linnéenne de Normandie 15: 1-37. (Lygosoma deplanchei, new species, p. 23). (in French).
- Sadlier RA. 1987. "A review of the scincid lizards of New Caledonia". Records of the Australian Museum 39 (1): 1-66. (Sigaloseps, new genus).
- Sadlier RA, Bauer AM. 1999. "The Scincid Lizard Genus Sigaloseps (Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific: Description of a New Species and Review of the Biology, Distribution, and Morphology of Sigaloseps deplanchei (Bavay)". Rec. Australian Mus. 51 (1): 83-91. (Sigaloseps ruficauda, new species, pp. 84-87, Figures 1-6).