Geoscincus

Geoscincus
Conservation status
	; Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Geoscincus; Sadlier [fr], 1987
Species:	G. haraldmeieri
Binomial name
	Geoscincus haraldmeieri; (Böhme [de], 1976)
Synonyms
	Eugongylus haraldmeieri ; Böhme, 1976; Geoscincus haraldmeieri ; — Sadlier, 1987;

Geoscincus is a monotypic genus of skinks: the only accepted species is Geoscincus haraldmeieri (Meier's skink).

Etymology

G. haraldmeieri is named after German herpetologist Harald Meier.^[2]^[3]

G. haraldmeieri is only known from two specimens collected near Coula, New Caledonia.^[1]

The habitat of G. haraldmeieri has since been substantially modified, and the present status of the species is unknown.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c Sadlier, R.A.; Bauer, A.M.; Jourdan , H.; Astrongatt, S.; Deuss, M.; Duval, T.; Bourguet, E.; McCoy, S.; Bouteiller, A.; Lagrange, A. (2021). "Geoscincus haraldmeieri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T176134A123247906. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T176134A123247906.en. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b Geoscincus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
^ 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. (Geoscincus haraldmeieri, p. 175).

Böhme W (1976). "Über die Gattung Eugongylus Fitzinger, mit Beschreibung einer neuen Art (Reptilia: Scincidae) [=About the genus Eugongylus Fitzinger, with description of a new species (Reptilia: Scincidae)]". Bonner zoologische Beiträge 27: 245–251. (Eugongylus haraldmeieri, new species, pp. 248–249 + photograph on p. 245). (in German).
Sadlier RA (1987). "A review of the scincid lizards of New Caledonia". Rec. Australian Mus. 39 (1): 1-66. (Geoscincus, new genus, p. 6; G. haraldmeieri, new combination, pp. 6–7, Figures 4–7).

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