Sphenomorphus loriae
{{Short description|Species of lizard}}
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| image = Sphenomorphus_loriae_1897.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Sphenomorphus
| species = loriae
| image_caption = Drawing of Sphenomorphus loriae
| authority = (Boulenger, 1897)
| range_map =
| synonyms = *Lygosoma loriae
{{small|Boulenger, 1897}}
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Sphenomorphus loriae is a species of lizard in the subfamily Sphenomorphinae of the family Scincidae (skinks). The species is endemic to Papua New Guinea.
Etymology
The specific name, loriae, is in honor of Italian ethnologist Lamberto Loria.{{EponymDictionaryReptiles}}{{rp|160}}
Description
Dorsally, S.loriae is blackish brown, flecked and vermiculated with lighter yellowish brown. Ventrally, it is yellowish. The holotype has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of {{cvt|66|mm|in}}, and a regenerated tail {{cvt|77|mm|in}} long. {{cite book |last1=de Rooij |first1=N. |author1-link=Nelly de Rooij |title=The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria |date=1915 |publisher=E.J. Brill |location=Leiden}} xiv + 384 pp., 132 figures. (Lygosoma loriae, pp. 215–216).
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Further reading
- {{cite journal |last1=Boulenger |first1=G.A. |author1-link=George Albert Boulenger |title=An account of the Reptiles and Batrachians collected by Dr. L. Loria in British New Guinea |journal=Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie Seconda |date=1897 |volume=18 |pages=694–710}} + Plates VI–VIII. (Lygosoma loriae, new species, p. 698 + Plate VII, figures 1, 1a).
- {{cite journal |last1=Goldberg |first1=S.R. |author1-link=species:Stephen R. Goldberg |title=Anmerkungen zur Fortpflanzung von Sphenomorphus loriae (Squamata: Scincidae) aus Papua-Neuguinea [= Notes on reproduction of Sphenomorphus loriae (Squamata: Scincidae) from Papua New Guinea] |journal=Sauria |date=2023 |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=61–62}} (in German).
- {{cite journal |last1=Greer |first1=A.E. |author1-link=species:Allen Eddy Greer |last2=Shea |first2=G. |author2-link=Glenn Michael Shea |title=A New Character within the Taxonomically Difficult Sphenomorphus Group of Lygosomine Skinks, with a Description of a New Species from New Guinea |journal=Journal of Herpetology |date=2004 |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=79–87}} (Sphenomorphus loriae, new combination).
- {{cite journal |last1=Kinghorn |first1=J.R. |author1-link=James Roy Kinghorn |title=Notes on some Reptiles and Batrachians from the Northern Division of Papua, With Descriptions of New Species of Apisthocalamus and Lygosoma |journal=Records of the Australian Museum |date=1928 |volume=16 |pages=289–293}} (Lygosoma loriae, p. 292).
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Category:Reptiles of Papua New Guinea
Category:Reptiles described in 1897
Category:Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
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