Species Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii (Duméril & Bibron, 1839)

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• Scincus undecimstriatus Kuhl, H. 1820. Beiträge zur Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie. Frankfurt. 130 pp. [129].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (not found; only extant syntype referred to Leiolopisma entrecasteauxii (Duméril & Bibron, 1839); unpublished Kuhl figure of S. undecimstriatus indicates that at least one syntype =Ctenotus taeniolatus), Australia.
• Tiliqua entrecasteaux 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] [292] [nom. nud.].
• Lygosoma entrecasteauxii 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] [717].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 2473 2 specimens, Australia.
• Mocoa pseudocarinata O'Shaughnessy, A.W.E. 1874. A description of a new species of Scincidae in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 13: 298-301 [300].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1946.8.16.21 (lectotype designation not made in Cogger, H.G. 1983. in Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. Amphibia and Reptiles. In Walton, D.W. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 1. Netley, South Australia : Griffin Press Ltd. vi 313 pp.; indication only of work by Rawlinson in preparation; other syntype, BMNH 1946.8.16.22, referred to Leiolopisma metallicum), TAS.
• Mocoa pseudotropis 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. [13] [unnecessary replacement name for Mocoa pseudocarinata O'Shaughnessy, 1874, the latter regarded by Günther as a vox hybrida].
• Lygosoma (Mocoa) guttulatum Peters, W. 1881. (Eine Mitteilung über drei neue Eidechsen, zu der Familie der Scincoiden gehörig, eine Lipinia (mit geckonenähnlicher Bildung der Zehen) aus Neu-Guinea und zwei Mocoa aus Neuholland). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1881: 81-85 [83].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 9508 2 specimens, Adelaide, SA.
• Claireascincus triumviratus 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] [25].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM R116955 (previously AMF 28413), Picadilly Circus, Brindabella Range, ACT (as NSW).

  Secondary source:

   Hutchinson, M.N. & Donnellan, S.C. 1992. Taxonomy and genetic variation in the Australian lizards of the genus Pseudemoia (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Journal of Natural History 26: 215-264.

 

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. [169] (as Leiopisma entrecasteauxii)

 

Generic Combinations

• Leiolopisma entrecasteauxii (Duméril & Bibron, 1839).
• Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii (Duméril & Bibron, 1839).

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Alpine, diurnal, low open woodland, open forest, open scrub, tall forest, terrestrial, viviparous, woodland.

 

General References

Baehr, M. 1976. Beiträge zur Verbreitung und Ökologie Tasmanischer Reptilien. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) 292: 1-24 (natural history)

Harrison, L. & Weekes, H.C. 1925. On the occurrence of placentation in the scincid lizard Lygosoma entrecasteauxii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 50: 470-486

Rawlinson, P.A. 1974. Biogeography and ecology of the reptiles of Tasmania and the Bass Strait area. Chapt. 11. pp. 291-338 in Williams, W.D. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania. The Hague : Junk 498 pp. (biogeography)

 

Common Name References

Clayton, M., Wombey, J.C., Mason, I.J., Chesser, R.T. & Wells, A. 2006. CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing iv 162 pp. [36] (Tussock Cool-skink)

 

History of changes

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07-Feb-2024		22-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
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