MCZ Herpetology R-6476

Lygisaurus aeratus (GARMAN, 1901)

Holotype of Lygosoma aeratum

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 1998-02-06

Oceania: Australia: Queensland | Cooktown

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Herp:R-6476 JSON-LD

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Current Identification
Lygisaurus aeratus (GARMAN, 1901)
Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Sauria Scincidae
Common Name(s): Large-disced Litter-skink
Determiner: José Rosado on 2017-08-31
Nature of ID: expert ID
Previous Identifications
Lygosoma aeratum
Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Sauria Scincidae
Determiner: Samuel Walton Garmanlinked data icon
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: Garman/
Lygosoma Gray, 1828 sp.
Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Sauria Scincidae
Determiner: Catalog
Nature of ID: migration
Remarks: Catalog/1998

Garman 1901, page 7, Holotype of Lygosoma aeratum types not specified in text; however, collector and locality match
Barbour and Loveridge 1929, page 299, Voucher of Lygosoma aeratum
Media type: text; Garman 1901 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. XXXIX no. 1;

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Media type: text; Barbour and Loveridge 1929 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. LXIX no. 10;

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  • muse location number: ZR6464

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (95% ethanol) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: liver; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2021-12-17
subsampled by = Rina Morisawa   determined date=2021-12-17   determined by=Rina Morisawa  
whole animal (ethanol) good in collection 1 History (3)
Remarks: incomplete tail

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Rina Morisawa 2021-12-17

  • None

  • OCE 1900 by SGarman; CURRENT ID = Leiolopisma aeratum

  • None

  • Ocean:
  • Oceania
  • Country:
  • Australia
  • State/Province:
  • Queensland
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7001830 linked data icon
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Cooktown
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Cooktown, Australia
  • Georeference:
  • -15.460000°, 145.240005° (Error radius: 4.34mi) By: Julian A. Kapoor on 2005-11-24 (Source: www.ga.gov.au (GIS Dataset) 1:250,000)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 1998-02-06
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collecting Event Remarks:
  • End of date collected range set to latest date of data entry for a cataloged item in this collecting event
  • Collector:
  • Olive

  • None

Media type: text; Herpetology R-6476; R-6477; R-6478; R-6479; R-6480; R-6481; R-6482; R-6483; R-6484; R-6485; R-6486; R-6487; R-6488; R-6489; R-6490; R-6491; R-6492; R-6493; R-6494; R-6495; R-6496; R-6497; R-6498; R-6499; R-6500 Description: MCZ Herpetology Reptiles 004001-008000, pg.100;

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