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Eremiascincus butlerorum

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Species of lizard

Eremiascincus butlerorum
Conservation status

Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
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
  • 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.

Etymology

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

Habitat

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

Reroduction

E. butlerorum is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ 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. ^ 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 (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).


Taxon identifiers
Eremiascincus butlerorum


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