Suppressascincus pluto

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Kingdom: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Sphenomorphinae
Genus: Suppressascincus
Species:

Suppressascincus pluto (Ingram, 1977)

Holotype: QM J26261, collected by L. Webb, G. Monteith and G. Ingram on 14 July 1975.
Type locality: “McDonald Crossing, Cockatoo Creek, 115 km S of Bamaga, Cape York, in 11°33’ S, 142°26’ E”, Queensland, Australia.

Anomalopus pluto Ingram, 1977: 52 [original combination]
Coeranoscincus pluto — Wells & Wellington, 1985: 26 [subsequent combination]
Suppressascincus pluto — Wells & Wellington, 1988 [subsequent combination]
Sepsiscus pluto — Hutchinson, Couper, Amey & Worthington Wilmer, 2021: 371 [subsequent combination]

Ingram, G.J. 1977. A new species of legless skink Anomalopus pluto from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Victorian Naturalist 94(2): 52–53. BHL
Hutchinson, M.N., Couper, P., Amey, A. & Wilmer, J.W. 2021. Diversity and Systematics of Limbless Skinks (Anomalopus) from Eastern Australia and the Skeletal Changes that Accompany the Substrate Swimming Body Form. Journal of Herpetology 55(4): 361–384. DOI: 10.1670/20-137 Reference page.