Eremiascincus butlerorum

Eremiascincus butlerorum
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Eremiascincus
Species:	E. butlerorum
Binomial name
Eremiascincus butlerorum (Aplin, How & Boeadi, 1993)
Synonyms [2]
Glaphyromorphus butlerorum Aplin, How & Boeadi, 1993 Eremiascincus butlerorum — Mecke, Doughty & Donnellan, 2009

Eremiascincus butlerorum is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the island of Sumba in Indonesia. ^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, butlerorum (Latin, genitive plural), is in honor of Australian naturalist William Henry "Harry" Butler and his wife Margaret Butler. ^[3]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of E. butlerorum is forest, but the species has also been found in gardens. ^[1]

Reroduction

E. butlerorum is oviparous. ^[2]

References

1. Stubbs A, Reilly S, Shea G (2021). "Eremiascincus butlerorum ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T104759151A104853635.en. Accessed on 17 December 2021.
2. Eremiascincus butlerorum at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 22 March 2015.
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. (Glaphyromorphus butlerorum, p. 44).

Further reading

• Aplin KP, How RA, Boeadi [sic] (1993). "A new species of the Glaphyromorphus isolepis Species Group (Lacertilia; Scincidae) from Sumba Island, Indonesia". Records of the Western Australian Museum16 (2): 235–242. (Glaphyromorphus butlerorum, new species).
• Mecke S, Doughty P, Donnellan SC (2009). "A new species of Eremiascincus (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from the Great Sandy Desert and Pilbara Coast, Western Australia and reassignment of eight species from Glaphyromorphus to Eremiascincus ". Zootaxa2246: 1–20. (Eremiascincus butlerorum, new combination, p. 8). (in English, with an abstract in German).
• Mecke, Sven; Kieckbusch, Max; Graf, Theresa; Beck, Lothar A.; O'Shea, Mark; Kaiser, Hinrich (2016). "First captive breeding of a night skink (Scincidae: Eremiascincus) from Timor-Leste, Lesser Sunda Islands, with remarks on the reproductive biology of the genus" Salamandra52 (2): 178–188. (in English, with an abstract in German).