Eulamprus kosciuskoi (KINGHORN, 1932)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Alpine Meadow-skink, Alpine Water Skink
Synonym	Lygosoma (Hinulia) quoyi kosciuskoi KINGHORN 1932 Sphenomorphus kosciuskoi — DONE & HEATWOLE 1977 Sphenomorphus kosciuskoi — COGGER 1983: 185 Costinisauria kosciuskoi — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 27 Costinisauria worrelli — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 27 Sphenomorphus kosciuskoi — HENLE & OSBORNE 1986 Eulamprus kosciuskoi — FRANK & RAMUS 1995 Eulamprus kosciuskoi — COGGER 2000: 485 Eulamprus kosciuskoi — COUPER et al. 2006: 380 Costinisauria couperi WELLS 2009 Eulamprus kosciuskoi — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Distribution	Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland) Type locality: Mt. Kosciusko, elevation 5,000 ft (> 1400 m), N. S. W.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: AMS (AM) R4654
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A small water skink (largest adult 86 mm snout-vent) distinguished from all but E. leuraensis by the presence of a black vertebral stripe. Said to differ from E. leuraensis by its paler dorsal colouring (including weakly marked head), broader paravertebral stripes and pale-spotted black lateral pattern stopping at the midlateral level rather than extending to the ventrolateral angle of the trunk (Shea & Peterson, 1985, cited in Hutchinson & Rawlinson 1995: 198).
Comment	Type species: Lygosoma (Hinulia) quoyi kosciuskoi KINGHORN 1932 is the type species of the genus Costinisauria WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985. Synonymy: partly fide SHEA & SADLIER 1999, and Glen Shea, pers. comm. 19 March 2013, 3 Apr 2013. Phylogenetics: Eulamprus leuraensis and certain populations of E. kosciuskoi are paraphyletic (Pepper et al. 2018). Distribution: see map in Pepper et al. 2018: Fig. 2. Limb morphology: 5 digits, 5 toes (Singhal et al. 2018, Skinner 2010)
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp. Couper, P., Covacevich, J., Amey, A. & Baker, A. 2006. The genera of skinks (Family Scincidae) of Australia and its island territories: diversity, distribution and identification. in: Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G.M. & Lee, M.S.Y. (eds.). Evolution and Zoogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, pp. 367-384 Done, B.S. & Heatwole, H. 1977. Social Behavior of Some Australian Skinks. Copeia 1977 (3): 419-430 - get paper here Henle, K. & Osborne, W. S. 1986. Herpetologische Spaziergänge im Kosciusko-Nationalpark/Australien. Herpetofauna 8 (40): 28-33 - get paper here Hutchinson, M.N & P.A. Rawlinson 1995. The water skinks (Lacertilia: Eulamprus) of Victoria and South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum 28(2): 185–207 Kinghorn, J. R. 1932. Herpetological notes 4. Rec. Austral. Mus. 18: 335-363 - get paper here PEARSON, H.E. & SHEA, G.M. 2008. First record of the alpine Water Skink, Eulamprus kosciuskoi (Kinghorn, 1932) (Squamata: Scincidae) from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 52 (2): 238 - get paper here Pepper, Mitzy; Joanna Sumner Ian G. Brennan Kate Hodges Alan R. Lemmon Emily Moriarty Lemmon Garry Peterson Daniel L. Rabosky Lin Schwarzkopf Ian A. W. Scott Glenn Shea J. Scott Keogh 2018. Speciation in the mountains and dispersal by rivers: Molecular phylogeny of Eulamprus water skinks and the biogeography of Eastern Australia. Journal of Biogeography 45: 2040– 2052 - get paper here Rawlinson, P.A. 1969. The reptiles of East Gippsland. Proc. R. Soc. Vict. 82: 113-128 Singhal, Sonal; Huateng Huang, Maggie R. Grundler, María R. Marchán-Rivadeneira, Iris Holmes, Pascal O. Title, Stephen C. Donnellan, and Daniel L. Rabosky 2018. Does Population Structure Predict the Rate of Speciation? A Comparative Test across Australia’s Most Diverse Vertebrate Radiation. The American Naturalist - get paper here Skinner, Adam; Mark N. Hutchinson, Michael S.Y. Lee 2013. Phylogeny and Divergence Times of Australian Sphenomorphus Group Skinks (Scincidae, Squamata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69 (3): 906–918 - get paper here Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp. Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics/lizards/images/kosclive1.htm http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/organisation/e_prints/mqm_52_2/52_2_note_Pearson… http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Eulamprus… http://www.scielo.cl/pdf/ijmorphol/v24n1/art09.pdf https://bioweb.bio/faunaweb/reptiliaweb/FichaEspecie/Imantodes%20cenchoa http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2012/11/28/imantodes… Google images

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