Biology:Pinoyscincus jagori

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Short description: Species of lizard

Pinoyscincus jagori
Jagor's Sphenomorphus (Sphenomorphus jagori jagori).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Pinoyscincus
Species:
P. jagori
Binomial name
Pinoyscincus jagori
(W. Peters, 1864)
Synonyms[2]
  • Lygosoma (Hinulia) jagorii
    W. Peters, 1864
  • Lygosoma jagorii
    — Boulenger, 1887
  • Sphenomorphus jagori
    — Stejneger, 1908
  • Pinoyscincus jagori
    — Linkem, Diesmos & R. Brown, 2011

Jagor's sphenomorphus (Pinoyscincus jagori) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Philippines . There are two recognized subspecies.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, jagori, is in honor of German naturalist Fedor Jagor.[3]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of P. jagori is forest, at altitudes from sea level to 1,000 m (3,300 ft).[1]

Description

Dorsally, P. jagori is brown, with darker and lighter variegations.[4] Adults have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about 9 cm (3.5 in).[2] The tail length exceeds the SVL.[4]

Reproduction

P. jagori is oviparous.[2]

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.[2]

  • Pinoyscincus jagori grandis (Taylor, 1922)
  • Pinoyscincus jagori jagori (W. Peters, 1864)

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Pinoyscincus.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brown R, Ledesma M, Diesmos M, Rico E (2009). "Pinoyscincus jagori ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T169797A6675124. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T169797A6675124.en. Downloaded on 05 July 2020.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Pinoyscincus jagori at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 08 February 2021.
  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. (Sphenomorphus jagori, p. 132).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Boulenger (1887).

Further reading

  • Binaday JWB, Amarga AKS, Barrameda ES Jr, Bonagua BJM (2017). "Amphibians and Reptiles in the Vicinity of Bulusan Lake, Bulusan Volcano Natural Park, Sorsogon, Philippines". Philippine Journal of Science 146 (3): 339–351.
  • Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Scincidæ ... . London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. ("Lygosoma jagorii ", p. 240).
  • Linkem CW, Diesmos AC, Brown RM (2011). "Molecular systematics of the Philippine forest skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Sphenomorphus): testing morphological hypotheses of interspecific relationships". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (4): 1217–1243. (Pinoyscincus jagori, new combination).
  • Peters W (1864). "Über die Eidechsenfamilie der Scincoiden, insbesondere über die Schneider'schen, Wieggman'schen und neue Arten des zoologischen Museums". Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1864: 44–58. ("Lygosoma (Hinulia) Jagorii ", new species, p. 54). (in German).
  • Taylor EH (1922). The Lizards of the Philippine Islands. Manila: Government of the Philippine Islands, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bureau of Science. Publication No. 17. 269 pp. + Plates 1–22. ("Sphenomorphus jagorii grandis ", new subspecies, p. 195–196, Figure 28, a–c).


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