Emoia schmidti

Emoia schmidti, also known commonly as Schmidt's emo skink or Schmidt's skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Solomon Islands.^[1]^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, schmidti, is in honor of American herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt.^[2]^[3]

The preferred natural habitat of E. schmidti is forest, at altitudes from sea level to 300 m (980 ft).^[1]

The holotype of E. schmidti has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 5.9 cm (2.3 in).^[4]

E. schmidti is oviparous.^[2] Clutch size is two eggs.^[5]

^ ^a ^b ^c Harlow P (2013). "Emoia schmidti ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T196620A2467219. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T196620A2467219.en. Downloaded on 3 March 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Emoia schmidti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 14 January 2020.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Emoia schmidti, p. 236).
^ Brown WC (1954).
^ Brown WC (1991).

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Brown WC (1954). "Notes on Several Lizards of the Genus Emoia with Descriptions of New Species from the Solomon Islands". Fieldiana Zoology 34 (25): 263–276. (Emoia schmidti, new species, pp. 270–273, Figure 45a).
Brown WC (1991). "Lizards of the Genus Emoia (Scincidae) with Observations on Their Evolution and Biogeography". Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences (15): i-vi, 1-94. (Emoia schmidti, p. 73, Figure 29).
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