Parvoscincus boyingi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Parvoscincus boyingi (Brown, Linkem, Balete, Duya, Diesmos & Ferner, 2010)

Holotype: PNM 2302, adult ♂, collected by R.M. Brown on 16 March 1992.
Type locality: “at 1460 m above sea level on west face of Mt. High Peak (4.3 km N, 0.5 km E of peak; 15°31’ N, 120°07’ E), Barangay Coto, Municipality of Masinloc, Zambales Province, Luzon Island, Philippines”.

Sphenomorphus boyingi Brown, Linkem, Balete, Duya, Diesmos & Ferner, 2010: 6 [original combination]
Parvoscincus boyingi — Linkem, Diesmos & Brown, 2011: 1236 [subsequent combination]

Brown, R.M., Linkem, C.W., Balete, D., Duya, M.V., Diesmos, A.C. & Ferner, J.W. 2010. Species boundaries in Philippine montane forest skinks (Genus Sphenomorphus): three new species from the mountains of Luzon and clarification of the status of the poorly known S. beyeri, S. knollmanae, and S. laterimaculatus. Scientific Papers of the Natural History Museum of the University of Kansas 42: 1–27. hdl: 1808/26176 Reference page.
Linkem, C.W., Diesmos, A.C. & Brown, R.M. 2011. Molecular systematics of the Philippine forest skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Sphenomorphus): testing morphological hypotheses of interspecific relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163(4): 1217–1243. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00747.x Reference page.

Kim, P. 2023. IUCN: Parvoscincus boyingi (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2023: e.T199802A2612410. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T199802A2612410.en. Accessed on 22 December 2025.