Sigaloseps

Sigaloseps is a genus of skinks which inhabit the moist, closed forest of southern New Caledonia.

Conservation status

There is some conservation concern for Sigaloseps because of mining activity taking place in the region.

Species

The following 6 species are recognized as being valid.<ref>"Sigaloseps ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>

• Sigaloseps balios Template:Small
• Sigaloseps conditus Template:Small
• Sigaloseps deplanchei Template:Small - Deplanche's shiny skink
• Sigaloseps ferrugicauda Template:Small
• Sigaloseps pisinnus Template:Small
• Sigaloseps ruficauda Template:Small

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Sigaloseps.

Etymology

The specific name, deplanchei, is in honor of French naturalist Émile Deplanche.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Sigaloseps deplanchei, p. 69).</ref>

Further reading

• Bavay ARJB (1869). "Catalogue des Reptiles de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et description d'espèces nouvelles ". Mémoires Société linnéenne de Normandie 15: 1-37. (Lygosoma deplanchei, new species, p. 23). (in French).
• Sadlier RA (1987). "A review of the scincid lizards of New Caledonia". Records of the Australian Museum 39 (1): 1-66. (Sigaloseps, new genus).
• Sadlier RA, Bauer AM (1999). "The Scincid Lizard Genus Sigaloseps (Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific: Description of a New Species and Review of the Biology, Distribution, and Morphology of Sigaloseps deplanchei (Bavay)". Rec. Australian Mus. 51 (1): 83–91. (Sigaloseps ruficauda, new species, pp. 84–87, Figures 1–6).

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