Maccoy's elf skink

Anepischetosia maccoyi, also known commonly as the highlands forest-skink,[2] highlands forest skink,[3] Maccoy's elf skink,[3] or McCoy's skink,[3] is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species, which is monotypic in the genus Anepischetosia,[2] is endemic to Australia.

Maccoy's elf skink

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Anepischetosia
Wells & Wellington, 1985
Species:
A. maccoyi
Binomial name
Anepischetosia maccoyi
(Lucas & C. Frost, 1894)
Synonyms[2]
  • Siaphos maccoyi
    Lucas & C. Frost, 1894
  • Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) maccoyi
    — M.A. Smith, 1937
  • Anotis maccoyi
    — Greer, 1974
  • Hemiergis maccoyi
    — Cogger, 1983
  • Anepischetos [sic] maccoyi
    — Wells & Wellington, 1984
  • Anepischetos sharmani
    Wells & Wellington, 1984
  • Anepischetosia maccoyi
    — Wells & Wellington, 1985
  • Anepischetosia brindabellaensis
    Wells & Wellington, 1985
  • Nannoscincus (Nannoseps) maccoyi
    — Sadlier, 1990
  • Anepischetosia maccoyi
    — Sadlier et al., 2006

Etymology

The specific name, maccoyi, is in honor of Irish zoologist Frederick McCoy.[3]

Taxonomy

The generic name, Anepischetosia, was created by Australian herpetologists Richard W. Wells and C. Ross Wellington in 1985 to replace the generic name, Anepischetos, which was preoccupied by a genus of moths.[2] Anepischetosia is in the subfamily Eugongylinae.[4]

Reproduction

A. maccoyi appears to be ovoviviparous. The Reptile Database describes the species as being oviparous.[2] However, Lucas and Frost, in their original description of the species in 1894, wrote, "Young developed within the body of the parent, eight or nine being brought forth in January or February."[5]

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References
  1. Hutchinson M, Clemann N, Michael D, Gillespie G, Chapple DC, Melville J (2018). "Anepischetosia maccoyi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T102965197A102965208. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T102965197A102965208.en. Downloaded on 01 September 2018.
  2. Anepischetosia maccoyi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 August 2018.
  3. 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. (Nannoscincus maccoyi, p. 172).
  4. "Anepischetosia ". Dahms Tierleben. https://www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/lacertilia/scincomorpha/scincidae/eugongylinae. (in German).
  5. Lucas AHS, Frost C (1894).

Further reading
  • Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
  • Lucas AHS, Frost C (1894). "The Lizards indigenous to Victoria". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria [New Series ] 6: 24-92 + Plate II. (Siaphos maccoyi, new species, pp. 85-86 + Plate II, figures 2, 2a).
  • Wells, Richard W.; Wellington, C. Ross (1985). "A Classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia". Australian Journal of Herpetology Supplemental Series (1): 1-61. (Anepischetosia, new genus, p. 23).
  • Wison, Steve; Swan, Gerry (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.
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