Ornithuroscincus noctua
(Lesson, 1830)
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
Native to some Pacific islands. It is established throughout Hawai’i (Stejneger, 1899, The land reptiles of Hawaiian Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 21: 783–813; McKeown, 1996, A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Incorporated, Los Osos, California; Austin, 1999, Nature 397: 113–114). Salavenko et al. (2022, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195: 220–227) created the genus Ornithuroscincus and transferred Lipinia noctua into it. Slavenko et al. (op. cit.) suggested that Ornithuroscincus noctua was a species complex in need of further taxonomic resolution.
Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Hawaii
First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
The Reptile Database
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1899
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Stejneger, Leonhard H. The land reptiles of Hawaiian Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 21(1174):783-813
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1996
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McKeown, Sean. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Inc., Los Osos, California. pp.
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1999
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Austin, Christopher C. Lizards took express train to Polynesia. Nature 397(6715):113-114
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2021
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Slavenko, Alex, Karin, Tamar, Oliver J S Tallowin, Fred Kraus, Allen Allison, Salvador Carranza, and Shai Meiri. Revision of the montane New Guinean skink genus Lobulia (Squamata: Scincidae), with the description of four new genera and nine new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195(1):220–227
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