Ornithuroscincus pterophilus

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 Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

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

Name

Ornithuroscincus pterophilus Slavenko, Tamar, Tallowin, Kraus, Allison, Carranza & Meiri, 2021: 263

• Holotype: BPBM 45705 (field tag AA 21402), adult ♀, collected by A. Allison on 15 August 2015.
• Type locality: “grasslands, 8.9592°S, 147.5745°E (WGS 84), 2813 m a.s.l., SE slopes of Mt Victoria, Northern (Oro) 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: Mount Victoria Smooth-eared Skink