Sphenomorphus sheai

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincomorpha

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Infraordo: Scincomorpha

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Sphenomorphinae
Genus: Sphenomorphus
Species: Sphenomorphus sheai

• Status:   junior subjective synonym  

Name

Sphenomorphus sheai Nguyen, Nguyen, Van Devender, Bonkowski & Ziegler, 2013: 57

• Holotype: IEBR A. 2013.22 (Field number ASU 10715), adult ♀, collected by K.V. Nguyen and R.W. Van Devender on 4 June 2012.
• Type locality: “near Camp 1 (14°37.098’N, 108°30.177’E, elevation 1,025 m; datum WGS 84) from Kon Tum Plateau in the border area between Quang Ngai and Kon Tum provinces, southern Central Vietnam”.
• Synonymised with Sphenomorphus veunsaiensis (Geissler, Hartmann & Neang, 2012), by Bragin et al. (2025: 8).

References

Primary references

• Nguyen, T.Q., Nguyen, Q.V., Van Devender, R.W., Bonkowski, M. & Ziegler, T. 2013. A new species of Sphenomorphus Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Vietnam. Zootaxa 3734(1): 56–62. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.1.6 Reference page. 
• Bragin, A.M., Geissler, P., Trofimets, A.V., Neang, T., Le, S.X., Nguyen, T.V. & Poyarkov, N.A. 2025. A new species of skink from mountains of southern Vietnam (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae). Current Studies in Herpetology 25(1–2): 3–21. DOI: 10.18500/1814-6090-2025-25-1-2-3-21 Reference page. 

Links

• Nguyen, T.Q. 2018. IUCN: Sphenomorphus sheai  (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T104776718A104853790. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T104776718A104853790.en. Accessed on 29 August 2022.

Vernacular names

• English: Shea’s Forest Skink