Prasinohaema | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Scincidae |
Subfamily: | Sphenomorphinae |
Genus: | Prasinohaema Greer, 1974 |
Prasinohaema (Greek: "green blood") is a genus of skinks characterized by having green blood. This condition is caused by an excess buildup of the bile pigment biliverdin. [1] Prasinohaema species have plasma biliverdin concentrations approximately 1.5-30 times greater than fish species with green blood plasma and 40 times greater than humans with green jaundice. [1] The benefit provided by the high pigment concentration is unknown, but one possibility is that it protects against malaria. [2] [3]
Species in the genus Prasinohaema are endemic to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. [4]
Species in the genus include: [4]
Nota bene : A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Prasinohaema.
The specific names, parkeri and semoni, are in honor of English herpetologist Hampton Wildman Parker and German zoologist Richard Wolfgang Semon, respectively. [5]
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