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Pseudemoia spenceri

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Species of lizard

Pseudemoia spenceri
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: Pseudemoia
Species: P. spenceri
Binomial name
Pseudemoia spenceri
(Lucas & Frost, 1894)
Synonyms
  • Lygosoma (Emoa) spenceri
    Lucas & Frost, 1894
  • Lygosoma (Liolepisma) weekesae
    Kinghorn, 1929
  • Ablepharus spenceri
    — M.A. Smith, 1937
  • Pseudemoia spenceri
    — Fuhn, 1967
  • Leiolopisma spenceri
    — Greer, 1974
  • Pseudemoia spenceri
    — Cogger, 1983

Pseudemoia spenceri, also known commonly as Spencer's widow-eyed skink or the trunk-climbing cool-skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.

Etymology

The specific name, spenceri, is in honour of English-Australian biologist Walter Baldwin Spencer.

Geographic range

P. spenceri is found in southeastern Australia, in the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of P. spenceri are forest and rocky areas.

Reproduction

P. spenceri is viviparous.

References

  1. ^ Shea, G.; Clemann, N.; Hutchinson, M.; Chapple, D. (2018). "Pseudemoia spenceri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T109481007A109481026. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T109481007A109481026.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Species Pseudemoia spenceri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  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. (Pseudemoia spenceri, p. 250).

Further reading

  • Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
  • Kinghorn JR (1929). "A New Species of Lygosoma from New South Wales" Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54: 32–33. {Lygosoma (Liolepisma) weekesae, new species}.
  • Lucas AHS, Frost C (1894). "The Lizards indigenous to Victoria". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Australia, New Series 6: 24–92 + Plate II. {Lygosoma (Emoa) spenceri, new species, pp. 81–82 + Plate II, figures 1, 1a}.
  • 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
Pseudemoia spenceri


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