Genus Anomalopus Duméril & Duméril, 1851

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anomalopus Duméril, A.M.C. & Duméril, A. 1851. Catalogue Méthodique de la Collection des Reptiles. Paris : Mus. Hist. Nat. iv 224 pp. [185].

  Type species:

   Anomalopus verreauxii Duméril & Duméril, 1851 by monotypy.
• Anomalpus Günther, A. 1875. Reptiles. A list of saurians of Australia and New Zealand. In, Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror. Vol. 2. London : E.W. Janson. [14] [lapsus pro Anomalopus Duméril & Duméril, 1851].
• Coloscincus Peters, W. 1876. Über die von S.M.S. Gazelle mitgebrachten Amphibien. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1876: 528-535 [1877 on title page] [532].

  Type species:

   Coloscincus truncatus Peters, 1876 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mittleman, M.B. 1952. A generic synopsis of the lizards of the subfamily Lygosominae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 117(17): 1-35 [Publication 4096]
• Cogger, H.G., in Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. 313 pp. in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [135]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB) ; NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

General References

Hutchinson, M.N., Couper, P., Amey, A. & Wilmer, J.W. 2021. Diversity and Systematics of Limbless Skinks (Anomalopus) from Eastern Australia and the Skeletal Changes that Accompany the Substrate Swimming Body Form. Journal of Herpetology 55(No.4): 361-384 [369]

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