Genus Emoia Gray, 1845

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eusoma Fitzinger, L.J. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus Primus. Amblyglossae. Vienna : Braümüller et Seidel i-vi, 106 pp. [22] [non Eusoma Germar, 1817].

  Type species:

   Eumeces lessonii Duméril & Bibron, 1839 by original designation.
• Emoia Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 289 pp. [95].

  Type species:

   Scincus atrocostatus Lesson, 1826 by subsequent designation, see Mittleman, M.B. 1952. A generic synopsis of the lizards of the subfamily Lygosominae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 117(17): 1-35 [Publication 4096].
• Emoa Girard, C. 1857. Descriptions of some new reptiles, collected by the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Capt. Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Fourth Part. Including the species of saurians exotic to North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 9(1857): 195-199 [1858 on title page] [197] [emend. pro Emoia Gray, 1845].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [162]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Oriental Region—SE Asia (through Indo-Australian Archipelago to New Guinea and Pacific islands), Australian Region—New Guinea, Pacific Islands.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024		22-Feb-2013	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)