Subspecies Eremiascincus pardalis pardalis Macleay, 1877

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• Hinulia pardalis Macleay, W. 1877. The lizards of the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 60-69 [1878 on title page] [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM R31837, Barrow Is., QLD.
• Lygosoma atromaculatum Garman, S. 1901. Some reptiles and batrachians from Australasia. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 39: 1-14 [8].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MCZ 6475 2 specimens, QLD and Great Barrier Reef, QLD; MCZ 6478 3 specimens, QLD — Cooktown, see Loveridge (1934); FMNH 73374, QLD; MCZ one specimen (not found)
  Comment: note that when examined in 1970 all MCZ syntypes were disassociated from their identifying tags, making it impossible to associate particular numbers (and localities) with individual syntypes; one of five MCZ syntypes not located.

  Type locality references:

  Loveridge, A. 1934. Australian reptiles in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 77: 243-383.

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. [186] (as Sphenomorphus pardalis)

Generic Combinations

• Eremiascincus pardalis (Macleay, 1877). —
  Mecke, S., Doughty, P. & Donnellan, S.C. 2009. A new species of Eremiascincus (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from the Great Sandy Desert and Pilbara Coast, Western Australia and reassignment of eight species from Glaphyromorphus to Eremiascincus. Zootaxa 2246: 1-20 [6] (new combination, transferred from Glaphyromorphus)
• Sphenomorphus pardalis (Macleay, 1877). —
  Greer, A.E. & Parker, F. 1974. The fasciatus species group of Sphenomorphus (Lacertilia: Scincidae): notes on eight previously described species and descriptions of three new species. Papua New Guinea Scientific Society Proceedings 25: 31-61
• Glaphyromorphus pardalis (Macleay, 1877). —
  Wells, R. & Wellington, C.R. 1983. A synopsis of the class Reptilia in Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology 1: 73–129

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, litter, nocturnal, terrestrial, woodland.

Common Name References

Cogger, H.G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO publishing 7th edition, pp. xxx+1033. [557] (Lowlands Bar-lipped Skink)

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