Eremiascincus butlerorum
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]
| Eremiascincus butlerorum | |
|---|---|
Scientific 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] | |
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]
References
- 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.
- Eremiascincus butlerorum at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2015.
- 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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