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Issue: Vol. 2433 No. 1: 22 Apr. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-04-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2433.1.4
Page range: 62–68
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Proablepharus (Scincidae: Lygosominae) from Mt Surprise, north-eastern Queensland, Australia

Biodiversity, Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Australia
Department of Environment and Resource Management, P.O. Box 15155, City East, Queensland 4002, Australia
Department of Environment and Resource Management, P.O. Box 975, Atherton, Queensland 4883, Australia
Biodiversity, Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Australia
Reptilia Scincidae Proablepharus new species Queensland Australia conservation status

Abstract

Proablepharus barrylyoni sp. nov. is described from a single locality near Mt Surprise, north-eastern Queensland. It is distinguished from its congeners by the following character states: body longitudinally striped, four supraoculars, five supraciliaries, frontoparietals fused to interparietal, upper preocular well-developed, two postsupralabials, lamellae beneath digits of pes smoothly rounded. The species was last collected in 1981 and, using criteria prescribed in the Queensland Nature Conservation Act, Wildlife Regulation 1994, qualifies as Vulnerable.

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