Accepted scientific name:
Emoia impar WERNER 1898 (accepted name) 1 literature reference for Emoia impar WERNER 1898
Synonyms:
Lygosoma cyanurum schauinslandi WERNER 1901 (ambiguous synonym)
Lygosoma impar WERNER 1898 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Lygosoma impar WERNER 1898
Mabuya deserticola DUNN 1936 (synonym)
Common names:
Common name Language Country
Azure-tailed Skink - -
Classification:
Animalia CoL
Phylum Chordata CoL
Class Reptilia TIGR Reptiles
Order Squamata TIGR Reptiles
Family Scincidae TIGR Reptiles
Genus Emoia TIGR Reptiles
Distribution: Common and widely distributed in the Pacific from the Bismarcks through the Solomons and Vanuatu eastward to and including Polynesia; Micronesia (e.g. Mortlock Islands, Chuuk), Fiji Islands, Western Samoa, USA (introduced to Hawaii fide McKeown)
Lifezones: -
Additional data: neotype: designated by Ineich & Zug Absent from Rotuma Island and mainland New Guinea. McKeown (1996) blieves that Emoia impar was present on Hawaii before the arrival of Europeans.
Source database: TIGR Reptiles, Oct 2007   99%
Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P.,
Online resource: http://www.tigr.org/reptiles/species.php?genus=Emoia&species=impar
CoL taxon LSID: urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:2f597eec-4661-11e1-9b0d-e752e483e0da:col20130418