A New Genus for the New Caledonian Scincid Lizard Lygosoma euryotis Werner, 1909, and the Description of a New Species

Marmorosphax Sadlier, 1986 Type species. Lygosoma tricolor Bavay, 1868: 17. Diagnosis. The following combination of characters will distinguish Marmorosphax from all other genera in the Eugongylus group of skinks as defined by Greer (1979): frontoparietals fused; supranasal scale or postnasal suture absent; anterior loreal present as a semilunar scale failing to contact upper labials; subocular scale row complete; lower eyelid with an obvious, centrally located semi-transparent disc; ear lobules barely distinguishable from blunt conical scales around upper, lower, and posterior edges of ear opening; enlarged pairs of chinshields two, third pair of chinshields divided obliquely such that they are separated by five scales; premaxillary teeth 13; live-bearing mode of reproduction confirmed in M. tricolor and M. montana. Recognized species. Marmorosphax tricolor Sadlier, 1986, and Marmorosphax montana Sadlier & Bauer, 2000.Published as part of Sadlier, Ross A., Smith, Sarah A. & Bauer, Aaron M., 2006, A New Genus for the New Caledonian Scincid Lizard Lygosoma euryotis Werner, 1909, and the Description of a New Species, pp. 19-28 in Records of the Australian Museum 58 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.58.2006.1457, http://zenodo.org/record/468563