Emoia | |
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Pacific bluetail skink (Emoia caeruleocauda) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Scincidae |
Subfamily: | Eugongylinae |
Genus: | Emoia Gray, 1845 |
Species | |
78, see text | |
Synonyms | |
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Emoia is a genus of skinks, lizards in the subfamily Eugongylinae.[1] The genus Emoia belongs to a group of genera mainly from the southwestern Pacific-Australian region.
These small skinks are commonly known as emoias or skinks.
Species
[edit]List of 78 valid Emoia species and their respective authors, geographical ranges, and common names from the Reptile Database:[2]
Species | Region | Geographical range | Common name |
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Emoia adspersa (Steindachner, 1870) | Oceania | South Pacific | Steindachner's emo skink, Micronesian skink, dark-sided emoia, dark-sided skink, dateline emoia |
Emoia aenea W.C. Brown & F. Parker, 1985 | New Guinea | S. New Guinea | bronze emo skink |
Emoia aneityumensis Medway, 1974 | Vanuatu | Aneityum | Medway's emo skink, Anatom emo skink |
Emoia arnoensis W.C. Brown & Marshall, 1953 | Micronesia | Carolines, Marshalls, Nauru, Micronesia | Micronesia black skink |
Emoia atrocostata (Lesson, 1830) | widespread | Asia | littoral whiptail-skink, mangrove skink, littoral skink |
Emoia aurulenta W.C. Brown & F. Parker, 1985 | New Guinea | SW PNG | Brown's emo skink, golden forest skink |
Emoia battersbyi (Procter, 1923) | New Guinea | N. New Guinea | Battersby's emo skink |
Emoia baudini (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) | New Guinea, Maluku | Bird's Head and nearby islands | great bight cool-skink, Baudin's skink |
Emoia beryllion Kraus, 2018 | Rossel Island | Rossel Island | |
Emoia bismarckensis W.C. Brown, 1983 | New Britain | New Britain (Bismarck Archipelago) | |
Emoia boettgeri (Sternfeld, 1918) | Micronesia | Carolines (e.g. Ponape), Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Lukunor Atoll), Uman District Islands | Boettger's emo skink, Micronesia forest skink |
Emoia bogerti W.C. Brown, 1953 | New Guinea | Baliem, Papua, Indonesia highlands | Bogert's emo skink |
Emoia brongersmai W.C. Brown, 1991 | New Guinea | Sibil Valley, upper Digul drainage, Irian Jaya | Brongersma's emo skink, Brongersma's forest skink |
Emoia caeruleocauda (De Vis, 1892) | Pacific | Pacific | Pacific bluetail skink |
Emoia callisticta (W. Peters & Doria, 1878) | New Guinea | Sorong | |
Emoia campbelli W.C. Brown & J.R.H. Gibbons, 1986 | Fiji | Viti Levu | montane emo skink, Vitilevu Mountain treeskink |
Emoia coggeri W.C. Brown, 1991 | New Guinea | Singorakai, northern Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea | Cogger's emo skink |
Emoia concolor (A.H.A. Duméril, 1851) | Fiji | Fiji Islands, Rotuma Island | Fiji green emo skink, Viti slender treeskink |
Emoia cyanogaster (Lesson, 1830) | Melanesia | PNG, Solomons, Vanuatu, Admiralty | Teal emo skink |
Emoia cyanura (Lesson, 1830) | Pacific | Pacific | copper-tailed skink |
Emoia cyclops W.C. Brown, 1991 | New Guinea | Cyclops Mountains | Cyclops emo skink |
Emoia digul W.C. Brown, 1991 | New Guinea | Sibil Valley, upper Digul drainage, Irian Jaya | Digul emo skink |
Emoia erronan W.C. Brown, 1991 | Vanuatu | Futuna Island | common emo skink, Erronan treeskink |
Emoia flavigularis Schmidt, 1932 | Solomons | (Bougainville), Solomons | yellow-throated emo skink |
Emoia guttata W.C. Brown & Allison, 1986 | New Guinea | Morobe Province | Allison's emo skink |
Emoia impar (F. Werner, 1898) | Oceania | South Pacific | dark-bellied copper-striped skink, azure-tailed skink |
Emoia irianensis W.C. Brown, 1991 | New Guinea | Paniai Lakes | Irian emo skink |
Emoia isolata W.C. Brown, 1991 | Solomons | Solomon Islands (Rennell Island); Bellona Island | isolated emo skink |
Emoia jakati (Kopstein, 1926) | Oceania | South Pacific | Kopstein's emo skink |
Emoia jamur W.C. Brown, 1991 | New Guinea | Gariau area, Jamur Lake, on neck of land south of Geelvink Bay, Irian Jaya | Jamur emo skink |
Emoia kitcheneri How, Durrant, L.A. Smith & Saleh, 1998 | Sumba | Sumba | |
Emoia klossi (Boulenger, 1914) | New Guinea, Maluku | East Indonesia; PNG | Kloss's emo skink |
Emoia kordoana (A. Meyer, 1874) | New Guinea, Maluku | East Indonesia; PNG | Meyer's emo skink |
Emoia kuekenthali (Boettger, 1895) | New Guinea, Maluku | Maluku, Admiralties | Kuekenthal's emo skink |
Emoia laobaoensis Bourret, 1937 | Asia | Quang Tri | Bourret's emo skink, Laobao mangrove skink |
Emoia lawesii (Günther, 1874) | Oceania | Niue, Samoa, Tonga | Günther's emo skink, olive small-scaled skink |
Emoia longicauda (Macleay, 1877) | widespread | East Indonesia; PNG; Queensland | shrub whiptail-skink |
Emoia loveridgei W.C. Brown, 1953 | New Guinea | Toem, Irian Jaya | Loveridge's emo skink |
Emoia loyaltiensis (Roux, 1913) | Loyalty Islands | Mare and Lifou islands, Loyalty Islands | Roux's emo skink, Loyalty Islands emoia |
Emoia maculata W.C. Brown, 1954 | Solomons | Ugi Island; Solomons | spotted emo skink, spotted blue-tailed skink |
Emoia maxima W.C. Brown, 1953 | New Guinea | New Guinea | great emo skink |
Emoia mivarti (Boulenger, 1887) | New Guinea, Maluku | Admiralty Islands, Waigeo and N Irian Jaya (Indonesia), Bismarck Archipelago | Boulenger's emo skink, Admiralty five-striped skink |
Emoia mokolahi Zug, Ineich, Pregill & Hamilton, 2012 | Tonga | Tonga Islands (Vava‘u) | |
Emoia mokosariniveikau Zug & Ineich, 1995 | Fiji | Vanua Levu | Vanualevu slender treeskink |
Emoia montana W.C. Brown, 1991 | New Guinea | Papua New Guinea (Baiyer River drainage, Western Highlands Province) | mountain emo skink |
Emoia nativitatis (Boulenger, 1887) | Christmas Islands | Christmas Islands | Christmas Island forest skink, Christmas Island whiptail skink |
Emoia nigra (Jacquinot & Guichenot, 1853) | Melanesia | Bismarcks; Solomons; Vanuatu | black emo skink |
Emoia nigromarginata (Roux, 1913) | Vanuatu | Vanuatu | black-bordered emo skink, Vanuatu silver vineskink |
Emoia obscura (De Jong, 1927) | New Guinea | New Guinea | obscure emo skink |
Emoia oribata W.C. Brown, 1953 | New Guinea | New Guinea | |
Emoia oriva Zug, 2012 | Fiji | Fiji Islands (Rotuma) | |
Emoia pallidiceps (De Vis, 1890) | New Guinea | New Guinea; Bismarcks | De Vis's emo skink |
Emoia paniai W.C. Brown, 1991 | New Guinea | Paniai, Wissel Lakes, Irian Jaya | coastal emo skink |
Emoia parkeri W.C. Brown, Pernetta & D. Watling, 1980 | Fiji | Fiji Islands (Kadavu, Viti Levu, Ovalau, Taveuni) | Parker's emo skink, Viti copper-headed skink |
Emoia physicae (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) | New Guinea | Papua New Guinea; Morobe and Gulf | slender emo skink |
Emoia physicina W.C. Brown & F. Parker, 1985 | New Guinea | S. New Guinea | five-toed emo skink, small keel-scaled skink |
Emoia ponapea Kiester, 1982 | Micronesia | Caroline Islands, Ponape (Pacific), Micronesia | Kiester's emo skink, Ponape skink |
Emoia popei W.C. Brown, 1953 | New Guinea | Marienberg; PNG | Pope's emo skink |
Emoia pseudocyanura W.C. Brown, 1991 | Solomons | (Bougainville), Solomon Islands | false bluetail emo skink |
Emoia pseudopallidiceps W.C. Brown, 1991 | New Guinea | S. New Guinea | arboreal emo skink |
Emoia reimschisseli V. Tanner, 1950 | Maluku | Moratai Island, Moluccas | Reimschisel's emo skink |
Emoia rennellensis W.C. Brown, 1991 | Solomons | Solomons (Rennell Island) | bright emo skink, Rennell blue-tailed skink |
Emoia ruficauda Taylor, 1915 | ISEA | Philippines (Mindanao), Indonesia (Sulawesi ?) | redtail emo skink |
Emoia rufilabialis M. McCoy & Webber, 1984 | Solomons | (Santa Cruz Islands) | red-lipped emo skink |
Emoia samoensis (A.H.A. Duméril in A.M.C. Duméril & A.H.A. Duméril, 1851) – Samoan skink | Oceania | Western and American Samoa, Cook Island | Samoa skink |
Emoia sanfordi Schmidt & Burt, 1930 | Vanuatu | Vanuatu | Sanford's emo skink, Sanford's tree skink |
Emoia schmidti W.C. Brown, 1954 | Solomons | Solomon Islands (New Georgia Island) | Schmidt's emo skink |
Emoia similis Dunn, 1927 | Indonesia | Lesser Sundas | Dunn's emo skink |
Emoia slevini W.C. Brown & Falanruw, 1972 | Micronesia | Mariana Islands | Slevin's emo skink,[3] Mariana skink |
Emoia sorex (Boettger, 1895) | Maluku | Maluku | Sorex emo skink |
Emoia submetallica (Macleay, 1877) | New Guinea | PNG | Madeay's emo skink |
Emoia taumakoensis M. McCoy & Webber, 1984 | Solomons | Santz Cruz; Taumako, Duff Islands, Solomon Islands. | Taurnako emo skink |
Emoia tetrataenia (Boulenger, 1895) | New Guinea | New Guinea | four-striped emo skink |
Emoia tongana (F. Werner, 1899) | Tonga, Samoa | Western Samoa and some northern Tongan islands (Futuna, Niuafo’ou, Niuatoputapu, Va’vau, Ha’apai) | Polynesia slender treeskink |
Emoia tropidolepis (Boulenger, 1914) | New Guinea | S. New Guinea | forest emo skink |
Emoia trossula W.C. Brown & J.R.H. Gibbons, 1986 | Oceania | Fiji Islands, Rotuma Island, Cook Islands, Tonga | Fiji barred treeskink, Gibbons's emo skink, Viti barred treeskink |
Emoia tuitarere Zug, Hamilton & C. Austin, 2011 | Oceania | Rarotonga | |
Emoia veracunda W.C. Brown, 1953 | New Guinea | Sepik River, Marienberg | tropical emo skink |
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Emoia.
References
[edit]- ^ Uetz, P.; Freed, P.; Hošek, J. (eds.). "Eugongylinae". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ Emoia at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 September 2019.
- ^ 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. (Emoia ponapea, p. 140; E. kuekenthali, p. 147; E. lawesi, p. 152; E. mivarti, p. 180; E. slevini, p. 245).
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