Bougainville's skink
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Lerista |
| Species: | L. bougainvillii
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| Lerista bougainvillii (Gray, 1839)
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Bougainville's skink (Lerista bougainvillii ) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae.[2] This species is also commonly called the south-eastern slider.[1][3]
Etymology
Both the specific name, bougainvillii, and the common name, Bougainville's skink, are in honor of French naval officer Hyacinthe de Bougainville.[3]
Geographic range
L. bougainvillii is found in south-eastern Australia, including north-eastern Tasmania and many Bass Strait islands.[2]
Description
Bougainville's skink has very reduced limbs and moves in a snake-like manner.[2]
Habitat
L. bougainvillii is seldom seen as much of its life is spent beneath leaf-litter, loose sand, and thin stone slabs.[2][4]
References
- ^ a b "Lerista bougainvillii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ a b c d Cogger HG (1979). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Sydney: Reed. 608 pp. ISBN 0-589-50108-9.
- ^ a b 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 bougainvillii, p. 33).
- ^ Wildlife of Tasmania – Bougainville’s Skink.
Further reading
- Gray JE (1839). "Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descriptions of many New Genera and Species". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., First Series 2: 331-337. ("Riopa Brougainvillii [sic]", new species, p. 332).
- Greer AE (1967). "A new generic arrangement for some Australian scincid lizards". Breviora (267): 1-19. (Lerista bougainvillii, new combination).
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