Lerista colliveri

The nubbinned fine-lined slider (Lerista colliveri) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Queensland in Australia.[2]

Lerista colliveri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Lerista
Species:
L. colliveri
Binomial name
Lerista colliveri
Couper & Ingram, 1992

Etymology

The specific name, colliveri, is in honor of Frederick Stanley "Stan" Colliver (1908–1991), who was an Australian geologist and malacologist.[3]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of L. colliveri are forest and savanna.[1]

Description

Large for its genus, L. colliveri may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 8.4 cm (3.3 in), and a tail length of 12.7 cm (5.0 in). It has very reduced limbs. Each rear leg has only one digit, which has a claw, but each front leg is only a clawless "nubbin".[2][4]

Behavior

L. colliveri is terrestrial and fossorial.[1]

Reproduction

L. colliveri is oviparous.[2]

References
  1. Vanderduys, E.; Amey, A.; Couper, P.; Sanderson, C. (2018). "Lerista colliveri ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T109475470A109475511. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T109475470A109475511.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. Lerista colliveri 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 colliveri, p. 57).
  4. Couper PJ, Ingram GJ (1992).

Further reading
  • Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
  • Couper PJ, Ingram GJ (1992). "A new species of skink of Lerista from Queensland and a re-appraisal of L. allanae (Longman)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 32 (1): 55–60. (Lerista colliveri, new species).
  • Greer AE, Couper PJ (1998). "A further diagnostic character and some basic biological information for Lerista colliveri ". Mem. Queensland Mus. 42 (2): 474.
  • Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.



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