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Neopalaia
Neopalaia is a genus of skink found in Papua New Guinea. Slavenko et al. (2021) originally gave it the genus name Palaia, although this is preoccupied by a flatworm genus. As such, Deshmukh (2024) proposed the new generic name Neopalaia. The genus contains a single species, Neopalaia pulchra, named by George Albert Boulenger as a species of Lygosoma in 1903. Other authors have historically also included it in the genera Leiolopisma and Lipinia.
== References ==
1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1630146.