Lygosoma (Emoa) impar

Barabanov, Andrei & Milto, Konstantin, 2017, An annotated type catalogue of the anguid, dibamid, scincid and varanid lizards in the Department of Herpetology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia (Reptilia: Sauria: Anguidae, Dibamidae, Scincidae and Varanidae), Zootaxa 4244 (1), pp. 65-78 : 72

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scientific name	Lygosoma (Emoa) impar
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Lygosoma (Emoa) impar WERNER (1898: 553)

Syntype: ZISP 9144 View Materials (one specimen), “ Neu Britannia ” [ Bismark Archipelago , Papua New Guinea]. Received from F. Werner in 1898.

Present name: Emoia impar ( Werner, 1898) fide Ineich & Zug (1991).

Remarks : Additional syntypes are ZMB 14661, 14662 from “ Ralum ” [ Bismark Archipelago , Papua New Guinea] and ZMB 15204, 15204 A-D from “ Mioko ” [ Mioko Island , Bismark Archipelago , Papua New Guinea] ( Bauer et al. 2003). Werner reported a type series of 12 specimens, from “ Ralum und Mioko ”, collected by Dahl . The syntypes were reported lost, and a neotype (NMW 9965.1) was designated by Ineich & Zug (1991) who stated that the type series had been lodged in NMW and had been lost or destroyed. The discovery of a portion of the original type series by Bauer et al. (2003) invalidates the neotype designation.