Genus of lizards
Sigaloseps is agenus ofskinks which inhabit the moist, closed forest of southernNew Caledonia.
Conservation status
[edit]There is some conservation concern forSigaloseps because of mining activity taking place in the region.
The following 6species are recognized as being valid.[2]
- Sigaloseps baliosSadlier, Bauer, & Wood, 2014
- Sigaloseps conditusSadlier, Bauer, & Wood, 2014
- Sigaloseps deplanchei(Bavay, 1869) - Deplanche's shiny skink
- Sigaloseps ferrugicaudaSadlier, Smith, Shea, & Bauer, 2014
- Sigaloseps pisinnusSadlier, Shea, Whitaker, Bauer, & Wood, 2014
- Sigaloseps ruficaudaSadlier &Bauer, 1999
Nota bene: Abinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other thanSigaloseps.
Thespecific name,deplanchei, is in honor ofFrenchnaturalistÉmile Deplanche.[3]
- ^"Sigaloseps ".Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/scincidae/eugongylinae.
- ^"Sigaloseps ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^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. (Sigaloseps deplanchei, p. 69).
- Bavay ARJB (1869). "Catalogue des Reptiles de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et description d'espèces nouvelles ".Mémoires Société linnéenne de Normandie15: 1-37. (Lygosoma deplanchei, new species, p. 23). (inFrench).
- Sadlier RA (1987). "A review of the scincid lizards of New Caledonia".Records of the Australian Museum39 (1): 1-66. (Sigaloseps, new genus).
- Sadlier RA,Bauer AM (1999). "The Scincid Lizard GenusSigaloseps (Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific: Description of a New Species and Review of the Biology, Distribution, and Morphology ofSigaloseps deplanchei (Bavay)".Rec. Australian Mus.51 (1): 83–91. (Sigaloseps ruficauda, new species, pp. 84–87, Figures 1–6).
