Ornithuroscincus Slavenko & Tamar & Tallowin & Kraus & Allison & Carranza & Meiri 2022
Creators: name: Slavenko, Alex
name: Tamar, Karin
name: Tallowin, Oliver J S
name: Kraus, Fred
name: Allison, Allen
name: Carranza, Salvador
name: Meiri, Shai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Reptilia
Scincidae
Ornithuroscincus

description: KEY TO SPECIES IN ORNITHUROSCINCUS
1. (a) Light yellow-white patch on occiput absent ................................................................................................2
(b) Light yellow-white patch on occiput present............................................................ O. noctua –moth skink
2. (a) Frontoparietals fused....................................................................................................................................3
(b) Frontoparietals unfused ...............................................................................................................................4
3. (a) Adult SVL <50 mm; paravertebrals <70; uniform olive dorsum coloration with thick bronze dorsolateral stripes ............................................................................................. O. bengaun — Daga smooth-eared skink
(b) Adult SVL> 50 mm; paravertebrals> 70; dark brown to black dorsal coloration with golden striations .......................................................................................... O. shearmani — Shearman’s smooth-eared skink
4. (a) Dorsolateral stripes absent ..........................................................................................................................5
(b) Dorsolateral stripes present.........................................................................................................................7
5. (a) Parietal eye spot present ..............................................................................................................................6
(b) Parietal eye spot absent.................................................................... O. viridis — green smooth-eared skink
6. (a) Dark vertebral stripe absent from dorsum.......................... O. albodorsalis — white-backed slender skink
(b) Dark vertebral stripe present on dorsum ............................... O. nototaenia — Setekwa slender tree skink
7. (a) Thick dorsolateral stripes (> 1 scale wide) ..................................................................................................8
(b) Thin dorsolateral stripes (1 scale wide) .......................................................................................................9
8. (a) Mid-dorsal field dark olive grey spotted with brown; midbody scale rows <30.......................................... ............................................................................................. O. venemai — Brongersma’s slender tree skink
(b) Mid-dorsal field uniform light brown; midbody scale rows> 30 .................................................................. ...................................................................................................... O. inornatus — plain smooth-eared skink
9. (a) Parallel fragmented white vertical stripes on flank; venter blue (lime green in life) ......................... ........................................................................... O. pterophilus — Mount Victoria smooth-eared skink (b) Scattered white specks on flank; venter pearl white (lemon yellow or white in life).................................. .......................................................................................... O. sabini — Mount Simpson smooth-eared skink
description: Published as part of Slavenko, Alex, Tamar, Karin, Tallowin, Oliver J S, Kraus, Fred, Allison, Allen, Carranza, Salvador & Meiri, Shai, 2022, Revision of the montane New Guinean skink genus Lobulia (Squamata: Scincidae), with the description of four new genera and nine new species, pp. 220-278 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195 (1) on pages 273-274, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab052, http://zenodo.org/record/6530695