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Species of lizard

Lerista emmotti
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Lerista
Species: L. emmotti
Binomial name
Lerista emmotti
Ingram, Couper & Donnellan, 1993

Lerista emmotti, also known commonly as the Noonbah robust slider, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Queensland in Australia.

Etymology

The specific name, emmotti, is in honor of Angus Emmott (born 1962), who is an Australian sheep farmer and naturalist.

Geographic range

Native to central Queensland, the type locality of L. emmotti is Noonbah Station, 140 km south of Longreach.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of L. emmotti are savanna and shrubland.

Description

L. emmotti has two digits on each of its four feet.

Behavior

L. emmotti is terrestrial and fossorial.

Reproduction

L. emmotti is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Vanderduys, E.; Amey, A.; Couper, P.; Sanderson, C. (2018). "Lerista emmotti ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T109475901A109475909. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T109475901A109475909.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ Lerista emmotti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2015.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lerista emmotti, p. 83).

Further reading

  • Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
  • Ingram GJ, Couper PJ, Donnellan SC (1993). "A new two-toed skink from eastern Australia". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33 (1): 341–347. (Lerista emmotti, new species).
  • Skinner A, Lee MSY, Hutchinson MN (2008). "Rapid and repeated limb loss in a clade of scincid lizards". BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 310 . (Lerista emmotti, fourth page, Figure 1).
  • Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.


Taxon identifiers
Lerista emmotti


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