Sphenomorphus mertensi, Darevsky, 1964

Barabanov, Andrei V. & Doronin, Igor V., 2020, Annotated list of amphibian and reptile taxa described by Ilya Sergeevich Darevsky (1924 - 2009), Zootaxa 4803 (1), pp. 152-168 : 162

62. Sphenomorphus mertensi DAREVSKY (1964a: 80)

Holotype: MZB Lace. 975, female, “Padar Island in the Lesser Sundas Archipelago” [ Padar Island , West Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tengarra, Indonesia].

Etymology: Named after Robert Mertens (1894–1975), Russian-born herpetologist who worked most of his life at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt ( Germany).

Present name: Eremiascincus emigrans emigrans (Lidth de Jeude, 1895) fide Auffenberg (1980) and Mecke et al. (2009).