Eremiascincus butlerorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Eremiascincus
Species:
E. butlerorum
Binomial name
Eremiascincus butlerorum
(Aplin, How & Boeadi, 1993)
Synonyms[2]
  • Glaphyromorphus butlerorum
    Aplin, How & Boeadi, 1993
  • Eremiascincus butlerorum
    — Mecke, Doughty & Donnellan, 2009

Eremiascincus butlerorum is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the island of Sumba in Indonesia.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, butlerorum (Latin, genitive plural), is in honor of Australian naturalist William Henry "Harry" Butler and his wife Margaret Butler.[3]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of E. butlerorum is forest, but the species has also been found in gardens.[1]

Reroduction

E. butlerorum is oviparous.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Stubbs A, Reilly S, Shea G (2021). "Eremiascincus butlerorum ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T104759151A104853635.en. Accessed on 17 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Eremiascincus butlerorum at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2015.
  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. (Glaphyromorphus butlerorum, p. 44).

Further reading

  • Aplin KP, How RA, Boeadi [sic] (1993). "A new species of the Glaphyromorphus isolepis Species Group (Lacertilia; Scincidae) from Sumba Island, Indonesia". Records of the Western Australian Museum 16 (2): 235–242. (Glaphyromorphus butlerorum, new species).
  • Mecke S, Doughty P, Donnellan SC (2009). "A new species of Eremiascincus (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from the Great Sandy Desert and Pilbara Coast, Western Australia and reassignment of eight species from Glaphyromorphus to Eremiascincus ". Zootaxa 2246: 1–20. (Eremiascincus butlerorum, new combination, p. 8). (in English, with an abstract in German).
  • Mecke, Sven; Kieckbusch, Max; Graf, Theresa; Beck, Lothar A.; O'Shea, Mark; Kaiser, Hinrich (2016). "First captive breeding of a night skink (Scincidae: Eremiascincus) from Timor-Leste, Lesser Sunda Islands, with remarks on the reproductive biology of the genus" Salamandra 52 (2): 178–188. (in English, with an abstract in German).



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