Subspecies Emoia atrocostata atrocostata (Lesson, 1830)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scincus atrocostatus Lesson, R.P. 1830. Description de quelques reptiles nouveaux ou peu connus. pp. 34-65 in Duperrey, L.I. (ed.). (1826–1838) Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, Pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie 2(1) and Atlas (Reptiles 7 pls). Paris : Arthus Bertrand. [published over the period 1826-1838, Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Notes on the dates of publication of the natural history portions of some French voyages. Part 1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 7: 388–392 established date of the text as 1831] [livr. 15, pl. 4 fig.].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Kusiae (as Oualan) Island, Caroline Island.
• Mabouia marmorata 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] [65].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM R31852, Long Island, Torres Strait, QLD.
• Mabouia irrorata 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] [66].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM R31851, Hall Sound, Papua New Guinea.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, W.C. 1991. The lizards of the genus Emoia (Scincidae) with observations on their evolution and biogeography. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences No. 15: i-vi 1-94

Generic Combinations

• Emoia atrocostata atrocostata (Lesson, 1830).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, littoral, mangrove, oviparous, supralittoral.

General References

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

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