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Reptilia    Squamata (part)    Scincidae  

Azure-tailed Skink
Emoia impar (Werner, 1898)

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to the Pacific islands. It was established on Kaua’i, Hawai'i, but may now be extirpated there (Fisher and Ineich, 2012, Oryx 46: 187–195).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.09.06.10.40.49)
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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:
1898 Werner, Franz. Vorläufige Mitteilung über die von Herrn Prof. F. Dahl im Bismarck-Archipel gesammelten Reptilien und Batrachier. [Preliminary information about the reptiles and batrachians collected by Prof. F. Dahl in the Bismarck Archipelago.] Zoologischer Anzeiger [ Zoological Gazette] 21():552-556
2012 Fisher, Robert and Ivan Ineich. Cryptic extinction of a common Pacific lizard Emoia impar (Squamata, Scincidae) from the Hawaiian Islands. Oryx 46(2):187–195

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