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

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Collection: Herpetology
Catalog Number: R-6476
GUID: MCZ:Herp:R-6476

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 Garman

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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Shows Publication: Barbour and Loveridge 1929 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. LXIX no. 10

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

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