Epibator greeri

Epibator greeri
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Epibator
Species:	E. greeri
Binomial name
	Epibator greeri; (Böhme, 1979)
Synonyms
	Leiolopisma greeri ; Böhme, 1979; Lioscincus greeri ; — Bauer & Sadlier, 1993; Epibator greeri ; — Sadlier et al., 2015;

Epibator greeri, also known commonly as Greer's tree skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to New Caledonia.^[1]^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, greeri, is in honor of Australian herpetologist Allen Eddy Greer.^[3]

The preferred natural habitat og E. greeri is forest, at altitudes from 150–500 m (490–1,640 ft).^[1]

E. greeri is oviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c Sadlier RA, Bauer AM, Jourdan H, Astrongatt S, Deuss M, Duval T, Bourguet E, McCoy S, Bouteiller A, Lagrange A (2021). "Epibator greeri ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T176133A123131743. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/176133/123131743. Downloaded on 18 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Epibator greeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 14 January 2020.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lioscincus greeri, p. 107).

Böhme W (1979). "Eine neue Art der Gattung Leilopisma Duméril & Bibron, 1839 aus Neukaledonien (Reptilia: Sauria: Scincidae) [= A new species of the genus Leiolopisma Duméril & Bibron, 1839 from New Caledonia]". Salamandra 15 (3): 140–145. (Leiolopisma greeri, new species). (in German, with an abstract in English).

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