''Lipinia cheesmanae'', also known
commonly as Cheesman's lipinia and Cheesman's moth skink, is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of
skink
Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one of the most diverse families of lizards. Ski ...
, a
lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...
in the
family
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Scincidae. The species is
endemic
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to
Indonesia
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.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''cheesmanae'' (
genitive
In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated ) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun. A genitive can al ...
, feminine), is in honor of British entomologist
Lucy Evelyn Cheesman.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles'' Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Lipinia cheesmanae'', p. 52).]
Habitat
The preferred natural
habitat
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of ''L. cheesmanae'' is
forest
A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...
, at altitudes of .
Reproduction
The
mode of reproduction of ''L. cheesmanae'' is unknown.
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References
Further reading
* Parker HW (1940). "Undescribed Anatomical Structures and new Species of Reptiles and Amphibians". ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series'' 5: 257–274. (''Lygosoma cheesmanae'', new species, p. 265).
* Zweifel RG (1979). "Variation in the Scincid Lizard ''Lipinia noctua'' and Notes on Other ''Lipinia'' from the New Guinea Region". ''American Museum Novitates'' (2676): 1–21. (''Lipinia cheesmanae'', pp. 14–15, figures 9A, 10).
Lipinia
Reptiles described in 1940
Taxa named by Hampton Wildman Parker
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