Genus Aprasia Gray, 1839

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• Aprasia Gray, J.E. 1839. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. (contd.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2(11): 331-337 [1839 on title page] [331].

  Type species:

   Aprasia pulchella Gray, 1839 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Wells, R.W. 2007. Some taxonomic and nomenclatural considerations on the class Reptilia in Australia. A review of species in the genus Aprasia Gray, 1839 (Aprasiaidae), including the description of a new genus. Australian Biodiversity Record 6: 1-17.
• Ophioseps Bocage, J.V.B. 1873. Mélanges erpétologiques. III. Sur quelques sauriens nouveaux de la Nouvelle Calédonie et de l'Australie. Jornal de Sciences Naturais, Lisboa 14: 228-232 [231].

  Type species:

   Ophioseps nasutus Bocage, 1873 by monotypy.
• Ophiopsiseps Boulenger, G.A. 1887. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). 3. London : British Museum xii 575 pp. 40 pls. [436] [nom. nov. pro Ophioseps Bocage, 1873; regarded by Boulenger as a junior homonym of Ophioceps Blyth, 1853 (= Ophisaurus Daudin, 1803)].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kluge, A.G. 1974. A taxonomic revision of the lizard family Pygopodidae. Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 147: 1-221
• 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. [102]

Introduction

An alternative taxonomy (Wells 2007) includes this taxon in a distinct Family, Aprasiaidae Wells, 2007, comprising three genera. These are Aprasia Gray, 1839 — content: A. parapulchella Kluge, 1974; A. pseudopulchella Kluge, 1974; A. pulchella Gray, 1839. Abilenea Wells, 2007 — content: A. aurita (Kluge, 1974); A. fusca (Storr, 1979); A. glauerti (Parker, 1956); A. haroldi (Storr, 1978); A. inaurita (Kluge, 1974); A. picturata (Smith and Henry, 1999); A. repens (Fry, 1914); A. rostrata (Parker, 1956); A. smithi (Storr, 1970); A. striolata (Luetken, 1863). Ophidiocephalus Lucas and Frost, 1897 — content: O. taeniatus Lucas and Frost, 1897. This taxonomy has not gained widespread acceptance.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Geraldton Sandplains (GS) ; ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; NSW, NT, SA, Vic, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Kanmantoo (KAN) ; NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Hampton (HAM), Murray Darling Depression (MDD) ; NT, SA, Vic, WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Mallee (MAL), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Murchison (MUR), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

Maryam, B., How, R.A. & Adams, M. 2013. A new species of the Aprasia repens species-group (Squamata: Pygopodidae) from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 28(1): 30-43 (diagnosis)

Maryan, B., Bush, B.G. & Adams, M. 2013. Morphological and molecular assessment of Aprasia fusca and A. rostrata (Squamata: Pygopodidae), with a description of a new species from the Lake MacLeod region, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 28: 144–163

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