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Lamprolepis smaragdina (Emerald Skink; green tree skink)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Emerald Tree Skink (Lamprolepis smaragdina), sometimes (ambiguously) known as "green tree skink" or "emerald green skink". It is a non-threatened species although it not commonly seen but it is however, becoming more and more popular in the exotic pet trade. In the Philippines, it is called Tabili in the Cebuano vernacular.
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Infraspecies

Lamprolepis smaragdina acutirostre
Lamprolepis smaragdina moluccarum
Lamprolepis smaragdina perviridis
Lamprolepis smaragdina philippinica
Lamprolepis smaragdina smaragdina
Lamprolepis smaragdina viridipuncta

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  16 grams
Female Weight [1]  16 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  1
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.543 inches (9 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
American Memorial Park   Saipan, Northern Mariana Island  
Palawan Biosphere Reserve 2843689 Philippines  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu No
Philippines Philippines No
Polynesia-Micronesia Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0