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            <p> Pygmaeascincus gen. nov.</p>
            <p> Type species.  Pygmaeascincus timlowi (Ingram 1977)</p>
            <p> Species.  P. timlowi (Ingram 1977) ,  P. koshlandae (Greer 1991) ,  P. sadlieri (Greer 1991) . </p>
            <p>Etymology. From the Latin pygmaea for pygmy. Referring to the very small size of the three species. These skinks, at SVL &lt;30 mm, are amongst the smallest skinks in the world (Greer 2001).</p>
            <p> Diagnosis.  Pygmaeascincus is a genus of small litter skinks that is distinguished from all other Australian skinks by the following character states: small size (SVL &lt;30 mm); limbs short and widely separated when adpressed; digital formula 4/5 (four fingers, five toes) with ≤ 10 supradigital scales on fourth toe; frontoparietals and interparietal fused into a single shield; eyelid preablepharine; supraoculars transverse, ≤ 3, squarish, with only the 1 st contacting the frontal. </p>
            <p> The ‘ timlowi’ species group is separated from  Menetia , to which it was most recently assigned by at least 14 characters (1–14 in Table 1). The polarity of most of these characters remains uncertain. One of these is clearly a derived character (Greer 1991): frontoparietals fused with interparietal to form a single shield (vs interparietal distinct from fused frontoparietals) and is a very rare condition seen in only a few other Australian skinks (Greer 1991). Two other characters are most likely derived (15 and 16 in Table 1) but each is only diagnostic for two of the three  Pygmaeascincus . The first is a reduced number of supraoculars. A reduction from the plesiomorphic condition of four supraoculars (Greer 1991) is derived in both  Pygmaeascincus and  Menetia , but in  Menetia there are always two supraoculars whereas two of the three  Pygmaeascincus have 3 (Table 1). The second is the presence of enlarged upper palprebrals in  P. timlowi and  P sadlieri , a condition that appears to be unique within skinks (Greer, 1991). </p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/116E879AFFE0FFD1FF2DFDC9FC47FE1F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Couper, Patrick J.;Hoskin, Conrad J.	Couper, Patrick J., Hoskin, Conrad J. (2014): A new genus to accommodate three skinks currently assigned to Menetia (Lacertilia: Scincidae). Zootaxa 3884 (6): 597-599, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.6.8
