Species Liopholis whitii (Lacépède, 1804)

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Species Liopholis whitii (Lacépède, 1804)

White's Skink

Scincus whitii Lacépède, B.G.E. 1804. Mémoire sur plusieurs animaux de la Nouvelle-Hollande dont la description n'a pas encore été publiée. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 4: 184-211 pls 55-58 [209] [misspelled as Scineus whitii].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP 2988 (which of two syntypes designated lectotype not specified, as both syntypes catalogued under same number), Kangaroo Is., SA (as Australia).
Paralectotype(s) MNHP 2988.
Scincus compressicauda Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1824. Zoologie. in Freycinet, L.C.D. Voyage Autour du Monde Exécute sur l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817–1820. iv 712 pp. [180, pl. 42 fig. 2].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP 2989 (not found, see Guibé, J. 1954. Catalogue des Types de Lézards du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris : Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 119 pp.), Port Jackson, NSW.
Tiliqua leucopsis Gray, J.E. 1838. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. (contd.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2: 287-293 [1839 on title page] [291].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH xv.17a, Kangaroo Is., SA (original description cites Australia).
Lygosoma moniligera Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1839. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Paris : Roret Vol. 5 viii 854 pp. [Date published Nov-1839] [736] [Guibé, J. 1954. Catalogue des Types de Lézards du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris : Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 119 pp., cites only the first five specimens as types; also, Donnellan, S.C, Hutchinson, M.N., Dempsey, P. & Osborne, W.S. 2002. Systematics of the Egernia whitii species-group (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 50: 439–459 cite original combination as Gongylus (Lygosoma) moniligera].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP 2989, Australia.
Paralectotype(s) MNHP 2988, Australia and Kangaroo Is., SA (original description cites only Australia); MNHP 2992 2 specimens, Australia; MNHP 2990, Australia; MNHP 7123 2 specimens, Hobart, TAS.
Secondary source:
Guibé, J. 1954. Catalogue des Types de Lézards du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris : Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 119 pp.; Donnellan, S.C, Hutchinson, M.N., Dempsey, P. & Osborne, W.S. 2002. Systematics of the Egernia whitii species-group (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 50: 439-459.
Scincus ocellatus Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1839. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Paris : Roret Vol. 5 viii 854 pp. [Date published Nov-1839] [73] [nom. nud., name introduced in synonymy; ex Péron ms].
Scincus leuwinensis Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1839. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Paris : Roret Vol. 5 viii 854 pp. [Date published Nov-1839] [736] [nom. nud., name introduced in synonymy; ex Péron ms].
Egernia whitei tenebrosa Condon, H.T. 1941. Further records of lizards and frogs from Kangaroo Island. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 7: 111-116 [111, fig. 1].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA R2161, Flinders Chase, Kangaroo Is., SA.
Liopholis coplandi Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology Supplementary Series 1: 1-61 [Date published September, 1985] [32].
Type data:
Holotype AM R76863 (previously AMF 14610), Cooma airstrip, 17 km S Cooma, NSW.
Secondary source:
Shea, G.M. & Sadlier, R.A. 1999. A catalogue of the non-fossil amphibian and reptile type specimens in the collection of the Australian Museum: types currently, previously and purportedly present. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 15: 1-91 [61].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Donnellan, S.C, Hutchinson, M.N., Dempsey, P. & Osborne, W.S. 2002. Systematics of the Egernia whitii species-group (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 50: 439-459

Generic Combinations

Liopholis whitii (Lacépède, 1804). —
Gardner, M.G., Hugall, A.F., Donnellan, S.C., Hutchinson, M.N. & Foster, R. 2008. Molecular systematics of social skinks: phylogeny and taxonomy of the Egernia group (Reptilia: Scincidae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 154: 781-794 [791]
Egernia whitii (Lacépède, 1804).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)