Sigaloseps

There is some conservation concern for Sigaloseps because of mining activity taking place in the region.

The following 6 species are recognized as being valid."Sigaloseps ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

• Sigaloseps balios {{small|Sadlier, Bauer, & Wood, 2014}}
• Sigaloseps conditus {{small|Sadlier, Bauer, & Wood, 2014}}
• Sigaloseps deplanchei {{small|(Bavay, 1869)}} - Deplanche's shiny skink
• Sigaloseps ferrugicauda {{small|Sadlier, Smith, Shea, & Bauer, 2014}}
• Sigaloseps pisinnus {{small|Sadlier, Shea, Whitaker, Bauer, & Wood, 2014}}
• Sigaloseps ruficauda {{small|Sadlier & Bauer, 1999}}

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Sigaloseps.

The specific name, deplanchei, is in honor of French naturalist Émile Deplanche.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).

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• Bavay ARJB (1869). "Catalogue des Reptiles de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et description d'espèces nouvelles ". Mémoires Société linnéenne de Normandie 15: 1-37. (Lygosoma deplanchei, new species, p. 23). (in French).
• Sadlier RA (1987). "A review of the scincid lizards of New Caledonia". Records of the Australian Museum 39 (1): 1-66. (Sigaloseps, new genus).
• Sadlier RA, Bauer AM (1999). "The Scincid Lizard Genus Sigaloseps (Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific: Description of a New Species and Review of the Biology, Distribution, and Morphology of Sigaloseps deplanchei (Bavay)". Rec. Australian Mus. 51 (1): 83–91. (Sigaloseps ruficauda, new species, pp. 84–87, Figures 1–6).

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Category:Lizard genera

Category:Taxa named by Ross Allen Sadlier

Category:Skinks of New Caledonia

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