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    Species Accepted

    Emoia tongana (Werner, 1899)

    Murphy's Skink

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      3 results
      Murphy's Skink English
      Polynesia Slender Treeskink English
      Polynesian Slender Treeskink English

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      14 results
      Gill, B. J. 1995. Notes on the land reptiles of Wallis and Futuna, South-West Pacific. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 32: 55-61.
      Burt, Charles E.; Burt, May Danheim. (1932). Herpetological results of the Whitney South Sea Expedition. VI. Pacific island amphibians and reptiles in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 63 (5): 461-597.
      Greer, A. E. (1974). The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 1-67.
      Zug, G. R., I. Ineich, G. Pregill, and A. M. Hamilton. (2012). Lizards of Tonga and a description of a new Tongan treeskink (Squamata: Scincidae: Emoia samoensis Group). Pacific Science 66(2):225-237.
      Austin, C. C., & Zug, G. R. (1999). Molecular and morphological evolution in the south-central Pacific skink Emoia tongana (Reptilia: Squamata): uniformity and human-mediated dispersal. Austral. J. Zool. 47: 425-437.
      Gill B, J. (1993). The Land Reptiles of Western Samoa. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 23 (2): 79-89.
      ZUG, G. R. (2013). Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands. University of California Press, Berkeley, 306 Pp.
      Brown W C. (1991). Lizards of the genus Emoia (Scincidae) with observations on their evolution and biogeography. MEMOIRS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (No. 15) 1991: I-Vi, 1-94.
      McCoy, M. (2015). A Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Solomon Islands. Michael McCoy, Kuranda.
      Higgins, H. (1943). A Few Reptiles from Western Samoa. Copeia 1943 (1): 59.

      Citation

      Emoia tongana (Werner, 1899) in undefined