A new species of lizard in the genus Caledoniscincus (Reptilia: Scincidae) from far northwest New Caledonia
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Sadlier, Ross A.
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Whitaker, Anthony H.
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Wood, Perry L.
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Bauer, Aaron M.
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Zootaxa
2014
3795
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45
60
journal article
36860
10.11646/zootaxa.3795.1.5
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1175-5326
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TABLE 1. Values for number of midbody scale rows (MBR), dorsal scale rows (DSR), fourth finger (FFS) and toe (FTS) scales, and fourth finger (FFL) and toe (FTL) lamellae between samples of Caledoniscincus pelletieri sp. nov., Caledoniscincus constellatus, Caledoniscincus haplorhinus (combined data for six separate populations) from the west coast of New Caledonia, and Caledoniscincus austrocaledonicus from the neotype population on Mt Aoupinié in the central ranges of New Caledonia.| . | C. pelletieri sp. nov. N = 4 | C. constellatus Vavouto N = 4 | C. haplorhinus west coast N.C. N = 51 | C. austrocal. Mt. Aoupinié N = 28 |
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| MBR range (mean ± sd) | 28–32 (30.0 ± 1.6) | 28–30 (28.5 ± 1.0) | 28–32 (29.9 ± 0.98) | 30–32 (31.2 ± 0.99) |
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| DSR range (mean ± sd) | 63–65 (64.0 ± 0.8) | 61–65 (63.0 ± 1.63) | 59–66 (63.0 ± 1.49) | 58–65 (61.2 ± 1.84) |
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| FFS range (mean ± sd) | 10–11 (10.75 ± 0.5) | 10–12 (11.0 ± 0.82) | 10–13 (10.95 ± 0.66) | 11–12 (11.3 ± 0.40) |
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| FFL range (mean ± sd) | 16–18 (17.25 ± 0.65) | 16–18 (16.5 ± 0.71) | 14–20 (16.0 ± 0.92) | 15–18 (16.5 ± 0.69) |
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| FTS range (mean ± sd) | 17–18 (17.75 ± 0.23) | 17–19 (18.0 ± 0.82) | 14–20 (16.7 ± 1.01) | 16–19 (17.0 ± 0.56) |
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| FTL range (mean ± sd) | 35–37 (36.1 ± 0.85) | 31–33 (31.9 ± 0.85) | 25–35 (28.0 ± 1.64) | 26–33 928.7 ± 1.74) |
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