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Reptilia    Squamata (part)    Scincidae  

Moth Skink
Ornithuroscincus noctua (Lesson, 1830)

Current SSAR 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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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
1996 McKeown, Sean. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Inc., Los Osos, California. pp.
1999 Austin, Christopher C. Lizards took express train to Polynesia. Nature 397(6715):113-114
2021 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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