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Arnhem Land Gorges skink

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Species of lizard

Arnhem Land Gorges skink
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Bellatorias
Species: B. obiri
Binomial name
Bellatorias obiri
(Wells & Wellington, 1985)
Synonyms

Egernia arnhemensis Sadlier, 1990
Hortonia obiri, Wells & Wellington, 1985

The Arnhem Land Gorges skink (Bellatorias obiri) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

The Arnhem Land Gorges skink was first noted to be distinct in 1974 by Harold Cogger, who called it Egernia cf. frerei. Australian herpetologists Richard W. Wells and C. Ross Wellington described Hortonia obiri in 1985 from a specimen in the Northern Territory Museum in Darwin that had been collected 3 km southwest of Gunbalanya (formerly known as Oenpelli) by Brian Jukes on 28 July 1975. Ross Sadlier called it Egernia arnhemensis in 1990.

References

  1. "Bellatorias obiri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018. 2018. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T47155317A47155335.en.
  2. ^ Australian Biological Resources Study (20 August 2013). "Species Bellatorias obiri (Wells & Wellington, 1985)". Australian Faunal Directory. Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Australian Government. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  3. ^ Sadlier, Ross A (1990). "A new species of scincid lizard from western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory". The Beagle: Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences. 7 (2): 29–33.
  4. Wells, Richard W.; Wellington, C. Ross (1985). "A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia" (PDF). Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplemental Series. 1: 1–61 . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-19. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
Taxon identifiers
Bellatorias obiri


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