Emoia battersbyi, Battersby's emo skink, is a species of lizard in the subfamily Eugongylinae of the family Scincidae. The species is native to Oceania and Southeast Asia.
Etymology The specific name, battersbyi, is in honour of British herpetologist James Clarence Battersby (1901–1993).Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Emoia battersbyi, p. 19; Emoia ahli, p. 3).
The synonym, Lygosoma ahli, is in honour of German zoologist Ernst Ahl.
Geographic distribution Emoia battersbyi is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of Emoia battersbyi is forest, at altitudes from sea level to .
Reproduction Emoia battersbyi is oviparous.
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Further reading
Procter JB (1923). "On New and Rare Reptiles and Batrachians from the Australian Region". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1923: 1069–1077. ("Lygosoma (Emoa) battersbyi ", new species, p. 1770, Figures 3a–3c). Shea GM (2016). "Emoia ahli (Vogt, 1932), a synonym of Emoia battersbyi (Procter, 1923) (Squamata: Scincidae)". Amphibia-Reptilia 37 (3): 315–319. Vogt T (1932). "Beitrag zur Reptilienfauna der ehemaligen Kolonie Deutsch-Neuguinea". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 5–7: 281–294. (Lygosoma ahli, new species, p. 291). (in German).