Genus Saiphos Gray, 1831

Museums

Regional Maps

• Saiphos Gray, J.E. 1831. A synopsis of the species of the class Reptilia. pp. 1-110 in Griffith, E. (ed.). The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with its Organization by the Baron Cuvier. London : Whittaker, Treacher & Co. Vol. 9 481+110 pp. [1831 on title page] [72].

  Type species:

   Seps equalis Gray, 1825 by monotypy.
• Peromeles Wiegmann, A.F.A. 1834. Herpetologia Mexicana, seu Descriptio Amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae. Berlin : Lüderitz. [11].

  Type species:

   Seps equalis Gray, 1825 by monotypy.
• Siaphos 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] [333] [emend. pro Saiphos Gray, 1831].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Smith, M.A. 1937. A review of the genus Lygosoma and its allies. Records of the Indian Museum 39: 213-234
• 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.
• Skinner, A., Hutchinson, M.N. & Lee, M.S.Y. 2013. Phylogeny and divergence times of Australian Sphenomorphus group skinks (Scincidae, Squamata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69(3): 906-918 [914] (for Coggeria, Ophioscincus and Coeranoscincus)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

History of changes