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Sigaloseps

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Sigaloseps
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Subfamily: Eugongylinae
Genus: Sigaloseps
Sadlier, 1987[1]

Sigaloseps is a genus of skinks which inhabit the moist, closed forest of southern New Caledonia.

Conservation status

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There is some conservation concern for Sigaloseps because of mining activity taking place in the region.

Species

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The following 6 species are recognized as being valid.[2]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Sigaloseps.

Etymology

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The specific name, deplanchei, is in honor of French naturalist Émile Deplanche.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Sigaloseps ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/scincidae/eugongylinae.
  2. ^ "Sigaloseps ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Sigaloseps deplanchei, p. 69).

Further reading

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  • Bavay ARJB (1869). "Catalogue des Reptiles de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et description d'espèces nouvelles ". Mémoires Société linnéenne de Normandie 15: 1-37. (Lygosoma deplanchei, new species, p. 23). (in French).
  • Sadlier RA (1987). "A review of the scincid lizards of New Caledonia". Records of the Australian Museum 39 (1): 1-66. (Sigaloseps, new genus).
  • Sadlier RA, Bauer AM (1999). "The Scincid Lizard Genus Sigaloseps (Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific: Description of a New Species and Review of the Biology, Distribution, and Morphology of Sigaloseps deplanchei (Bavay)". Rec. Australian Mus. 51 (1): 83–91. (Sigaloseps ruficauda, new species, pp. 84–87, Figures 1–6).