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false bluetail emo skink

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Etymology

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From false + bluetail + emo skink (“skink in the genus Emoia”).

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Noun

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false bluetail emo skink (plural false bluetail emo skinks)

  1. Emoia pseudocyanura, a species of emoia or emo skink native to Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.
    Synonym: Solomons blue-tailed skink
    • 1995, Norman Frank, Erica Ramus, “Scaled Reptiles—Order Squamata”, in A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World, Pottsville, Pa.: N G Publishing, →ISBN, part II (Taxonomic Order), page 185:
      E. pseudocyanura Brown, 1991 … … … False Bluetail Emo Skink
    • 2004, “Basic Table”, in M[urray] Wrobel, compiler, Elsevier’s Dictionary of Reptiles […], Amsterdam, San Diego, Calif.: Elsevier, →ISBN, paragraph 3168, page 189:
      Emoia pseudocyanura / Squamata – Scincidae / False Bluetail Emo Skink

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