MCZ Herpetology R-6463

Lygosoma noctua

Holotype of Lygosoma arundelii

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 1998-02-05

Pacific Ocean | Clipperton Island

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Herp:R-6463 JSON-LD

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Current Identification
Lygosoma noctua
Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Sauria Scincidae
Determiner: Samuel Walton Garmanlinked data icon
Nature of ID: migration
Remarks: SGarman/1899
Previous Identification
Lygosoma arundelii
Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Sauria Scincidae
Determiner: Samuel Walton Garmanlinked data icon
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: SGarman/1899

Garman 1899, page 61, Holotype of Lygosoma arundelii types not specified in text; however, collector and locality match
Barbour and Loveridge 1929, page 299, Voucher of Lygosoma arundelii
Media type: text; Garman 1899 Description: Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club, volume 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: ZR6463

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (95% ethanol) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: liver/muscle; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2021-12-17
subsampled by = Rina Morisawa   determined date=2021-12-16   determined by=Rina Morisawa  
whole animal (ethanol) good in collection 1 History (3)

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

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  • CURRENT ID = Emoia (cyanura) arundelii

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  • Ocean:
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Sovereign Nation:
  • France
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Clipperton Island
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Clipperton Island
  • Georeference:
  • 10.2833000°, -109.21670° (Error radius: 7km) By: CSD (MCZ) on 2005-10-03 (Source: Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Radial of Feature:
  • 4000 m
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 1998-02-05
  • 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:
  • John T. Arundel

  • None

Media type: text; Herpetology R-6451; R-6452; R-6453; R-6454; R-6455; R-6456; R-6457; R-6458; R-6459; R-6460; R-6461; R-6462; R-6463; R-6464; R-6465; R-6466; R-6467; R-6468; R-6469; R-6470; R-6471; R-6472; R-6473; R-6474; R-6475 Description: MCZ Herpetology Reptiles 004001-008000, pg.99;

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Media type: text; Herpetology R-21941 documents cataloged_item R-21942 documents cataloged_item R-21943 documents cataloged_item R-6476 documents cataloged_item R-25373 documents cataloged_item R-25374 documents cataloged_item R-25375 documents cataloged_item R-25376 documents cataloged_item R-25377 documents cataloged_item R-25378 documents cataloged_item R-25379 documents cataloged_item R-25380 documents cataloged_item R-6463 documents cataloged_item R-6475 documents cataloged_item R-6478 documents cataloged_item R-9288 documents cataloged_item R-15970 documents cataloged_item R-15971 Description: Herpetology Types volume, 1929, page 103;

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