Kishinoue's Giant Skink
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The Kishinoue's Giant Skink (Eumeces kishinouyei) is a species of skink
in the Scincidae family found only in Japan
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The species name is a tribute to Japanese fisheries biologist Kamakichi Kishinouye
(岸上 鎌吉, 1867-1929).
Skink
Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae. Together with several other lizard families, including Lacertidae , they comprise the superfamily or infraorder Scincomorpha...
in the Scincidae family found only in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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The species name is a tribute to Japanese fisheries biologist Kamakichi Kishinouye
Kamakichi Kishinouye
was a Japanese fisheries biologist and cnidariologist and a professor of the Imperial University of Tokyo between 1908 and 1928....
(岸上 鎌吉, 1867-1929).
Source
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Eumeces kishinouyei. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.