Prasinohaema
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Prasinohaema (Greek: "green blood") is a genus of skinks characterized by having green blood. This condition is caused by an excess buildup of the bile pigment biliverdin. [1] Prasinohaema species have plasma biliverdin concentrations approximately 1.5-30 times greater than fish species with green blood plasma and 40 times greater than humans with green jaundice.[1] The benefit provided by the high pigment concentration is unknown, but one possibility is that it protects against malaria.[2][3]
Geographic range
Species in the genus Prasinohaema are endemic to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.[4]
Species
Species in the genus include:[4]
- Prasinohaema flavipes (Parker, 1936)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – common green tree skink
- Prasinohaema parkeri (M.A. Smith, 1937)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Parker's green tree skink
- Prasinohaema prehensicauda (Loveridge, 1945)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – prehensile green tree skink
- Prasinohaema semoni (Oudemans, 1894)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Semon's green tree skink
- Prasinohaema virens (W. Peters, 1881)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". - green-blooded skink, green tree skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Prasinohaema.
Etymology
The specific names, parkeri and semoni, are in honor of English herpetologist Hampton Wildman Parker and German zoologist Richard Wolfgang Semon, respectively.[5]
References
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- ↑ a b Genus Prasinohaema at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Prasinohaema parkeri, p. 200; P. semoni, p. 240).
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Further reading
- Greer AE (1974). "The genetic relationships of the Scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives". Australian J. Zool. Supplementary Series 22 (31): 1-67. (Prasinohaema, new genus, p. 12).
External links
- Prasinohaema in the Reptile Database.
- Green Blood episode in O'Shea's Big Adventure.