Sigaloseps

Sigaloseps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Scincidae
Genus:Sigaloseps
Sadlier, 1987[1]

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 6 species are recognized as being valid.[2]

  • Sigaloseps balios Sadlier, Bauer, & Wood, 2014
  • Sigaloseps conditus Sadlier, Bauer, & Wood, 2014
  • Sigaloseps deplanchei (Bavay, 1869)
  • Sigaloseps ferrugicauda Sadlier, Smith, Shea, & Bauer, 2014
  • Sigaloseps pisinnus Sadlier, Shea, Whitaker, Bauer, & Wood, 2014
  • Sigaloseps ruficauda Sadlier & Bauer, 1999

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

  1. ↑ "Sigaloseps ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/scincidae/eugongylinae.
  2. ↑ "Sigaloseps ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (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).


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