Pseudemoia spenceri

Pseudemoia spenceri, also known commonly as Spencer's widow-eyed skink or the trunk-climbing cool-skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.

Pseudemoia spenceri

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Pseudemoia
Species:
P. spenceri
Binomial name
Pseudemoia spenceri
(Lucas & Frost, 1894)
Synonyms[2]
  • Lygosoma (Emoa) spenceri
    Lucas & Frost, 1894
  • Lygosoma (Liolepisma) weekesae
    Kinghorn, 1929
  • Ablepharus spenceri
    — M.A. Smith, 1937
  • Pseudemoia spenceri
    — Fuhn, 1967
  • Leiolopisma spenceri
    — Greer, 1974
  • Pseudemoia spenceri
    — Cogger, 1983

Etymology

The specific name, spenceri, is in honour of English-Australian biologist Walter Baldwin Spencer.[3]

Geographic range

P. spenceri is found in southeastern Australia, in the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of P. spenceri are forest and rocky areas.[1]

Reproduction

P. spenceri is viviparous.[2]

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References
  1. Shea G, Clemann N, Hutchinson M, Chapple D (2018). "Pseudemoia spenceri ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T109481007A109481026. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T109481007A109481026.en. Downloaded on 28 March 2020
  2. Species Pseudemoia spenceri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Pseudemoia spenceri, p. 250).

Further reading
  • Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
  • Kinghorn JR (1929). "A New Species of Lygosoma from New South Wales" Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54: 32–33. {Lygosoma (Liolepisma) weekesae, new species}.
  • Lucas AHS, Frost C (1894). "The Lizards indigenous to Victoria". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Australia, New Series 6: 24–92 + Plate II. {Lygosoma (Emoa) spenceri, new species, pp. 81–82 + Plate II, figures 1, 1a}.
  • Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.



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