Slater's desert skink

Slater's desert skink
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Liopholis
Species:
L. slateri
Binomial name
Liopholis slateri
(Storr, 1968)
Synonyms[2]
  • Egernia slateri
    Storr, 1968
  • Liopholis slateri
    — Gardner et al., 2008

Slater's desert skink (Liopholis slateri), also known commonly as the Centralian Floodplains desert-skink, Slater's egernia, and Slater's skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia. There are two recognized subspecies.

Etymology

The specific name, slateri, is in honour of Australian herpetologist Kenneth R. Slater.[3]

Geographic range

L. slateri is found in Northern Territory and Southern Australia in central Australia.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of L. slateri are forest and shrubland.[1]

Reproduction

L. slateri is viviparous.[2]

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid including the nominotypical subspecies.[2]

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Liopholis.

References

  1. ^ a b Chapple, D.G.; McDonald, P.; Hutchinson, M.; Cogger, H.; Fenner, A. (2018). "Liopholis slateri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T109478633A109478682. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T109478633A109478682.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Liopholis slateri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 1 January 2020.
  3. ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Egernia slateri, p. 245).

Further reading

  • Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
  • Gardner MG, Hugall AF, Donnellan SC, Hutchinson MN, Foster R (2008). "Molecular systematics of social skinks: phylogeny and taxonomy of the Egernia group (Reptilia: Scincidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154 (4): 781–794. (Liopholis slateri, new combination).
  • Pavey CR, Burwell CJ, Nano CEM (2010). "Foraging Ecology and Habitat Use of Slater's Skink (Egernia slateri): An Endangered Australian Desert Lizard". Journal of Herpetology 44 (4): 563–571.
  • Storr GM (1968). "Revision of the Egernia whitei species-group (Lacertilia: Scincidae)". Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 51 (2): 51–62. (Egernia slateri, new species; E. s. slateri, new subspecies; E. s. virgata, new subspecies).
  • Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280. (Liopholis slateri, p. 332).



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