Geoscincus Haraldmeieri
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''Geoscincus'' is a
monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...
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skink Skinks are a type of lizard belonging to the family (biology), family Scincidae, a family in the Taxonomic rank, infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one o ...
s: the only accepted
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is ''Geoscincus haraldmeieri'' (Meier's skink).


Etymology

''G. haraldmeieri'' is named after German herpetologist
Harald Meier Harald Meier (1922 – 2007) Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians''. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd. xiii + 262 pp. . (Harald Meier, p. 89). was a German herpetologist.Beolens, Bo; ...
.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Geoscincus haraldmeieri'', p. 175).


Geographic range

''G. haraldmeieri'' is only known from two specimens collected near Coula,
New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...
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Habitat and conservation status

The habitat of ''G. haraldmeieri'' has since been substantially modified, and the present status of the species is unknown.


References


Further reading

* Böhme W (1976). "''Über die Gattung'' Eugongylus ''Fitzinger, mit Beschreibung einer neuen Art (Reptilia: Scincidae)'' About the genus ''Eugongylus'' Fitzinger, with description of a new species (Reptilia: Scincidae). ''Bonner zoologische Beiträge'' 27: 245–251. (''Eugongylus haraldmeieri'', new species, pp. 248–249 + photograph on p. 245). (in German). * Sadlier RA (1987). "A review of the scincid lizards of New Caledonia". ''Rec. Australian Mus.'' 39 (1): 1-66. (''Geoscincus'', new genus, p. 6; ''G. haraldmeieri'', new combination, pp. 6–7, Figures 4–7). {{Taxonbar, from=Q43652 Skinks Monotypic lizard genera Skinks of New Caledonia Endemic fauna of New Caledonia Taxa named by Ross Allen Sadlier