Ornithuroscincus bengaun

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Sphenomorphinae
Genus: Ornithuroscincus
Species: Ornithuroscincus bengaun

Name

Ornithuroscincus bengaun Slavenko, Tamar, Tallowin, Kraus, Allison, Carranza & Meiri, 2021: 260

• Holotype: BPBM 37741 (field tag FK 15374), adult ♂, collected by F. Kraus on 20 March 2011.
• Type locality: “Sota, 9.7580°S, 149.1822°E (WGS 84), 1860 m a.s.l., saddle between Mt Dayman and Mt Suckling, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea”.

References

Primary references

• Slavenko, A., Tamar, K., Tallowin, O.J.S., Kraus, F., Allison, A., Carranza, S. & Meiri, S.. [2021] 2022. Revision of the montane New Guinean skink genus Lobulia (Squamata: Scincidae), with the description of four new genera and nine new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195(1): 220–278. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab052 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Daga Smooth-eared Skink