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Pacific Snake-eyed Skink
Cryptoblepharus poecilopleurus (Wiegmann, 1834)

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to many Pacific islands. It is established throughout Hawai’i (Stejneger, 1899, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 21: 783–813; McGregor, 1904, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 28: 115–118; McKeown, 1996, A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Incorporated, Los Osos, California; Alvarez et al., 2023, Pacific Science 77: 87–101).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.09.06.10.08.49)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1899 Stejneger, Leonard. The land reptiles of Hawaiian Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 21(1174):783-813
1904 McGregor, Richard C. Notes on Hawaiian reptiles from the island of Maui. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 28(1383):115-118
1996 McKeown, Sean. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Inc., Los Osos, California. pp.
2001 Bauer, Aaron M. and Kraig Adler. The dating and correct citation of A. F. A. Wiegmann’s “Amphibien” section of Meyen’s Reise um die Erde, with a bibliography of Wiegmann’s herpetological publications. Archives of Natural History 28(3):313–326
2023 Alvarez, V., Fisher, S. R., Barley, A. J., Donmoyer, K., Blom, M. P., Thomson, R. C., and Fisher, R. N. On the origin and current distribution of the Oceania Snake-Eyed Skink (Cryptoblepharus poecilopleurus) in the Hawaiian Archipelago. Pacific Science 77(1):87-101

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