Eremiascincus antoniorum
Eremiascincus antoniorum is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Timor in Indonesia.[1]
| Eremiascincus antoniorum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Eremiascincus |
| Species: | E. antoniorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Eremiascincus antoniorum (M.A. Smith, 1927) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Etymology
The specific name, antoniorum, is in honor of the indigenous people of the island of Timor, who call themselves "the Antoni".[1][2]
References
- Eremiascincus antoniorum at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2015.
- Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Eremiascincus antoniorum, p. 10).
Further reading
- Mecke S, Doughty P, Donnellan SC (2009). "A new species of Eremiascincus (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from the Great Sandy Desert and Pilbara Coast, Westen Australia and reassignment of eight species from Glaphyromorphus to Eremiascincus ". Zootaxa 2246: 1–20. (Eremiascincus antoniorum, new combination, p. 8). (in English, with an abstract in German).
- Mecke S, Kieckbusch M, Graf T, Beck LA, O'Shea M, Kaiser H (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).
- Smith MA (1927). "Contribution to the Herpetology of the Indo-Australian Region". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1927 (1): 199–225. (Lygosoma antoniorum, new species, p. 216).
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