Slater's desert skink
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Liopholis |
| Species: | L. slateri
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| Binomial name | |
| Liopholis slateri (Storr, 1968)
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Slater's desert skink (Liopholis slateri), also known commonly as the Centralian Floodplains desert-skink, Slater's egernia, and Slater's skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia. There are two recognized subspecies.
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, slateri, is in honour of Australian herpetologist Kenneth R. Slater.[3]
Geographic range
[edit]L. slateri is found in Northern Territory and Southern Australia in central Australia.[2]
Habitat
[edit]The preferred natural habitats of L. slateri are forest and shrubland.[1]
Reproduction
[edit]L. slateri is viviparous.[2]
Subspecies
[edit]Two subspecies are recognized as being valid including the nominotypical subspecies.[2]
- Liopholis slateri slateri (Storr, 1968) – southern Northern Territory
- Liopholis slateri virgata (Storr, 1968) – northern South Australia
Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Liopholis.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Chapple, D.G.; McDonald, P.; Hutchinson, M.; Cogger, H.; Fenner, A. (2018). "Liopholis slateri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T109478633A109478682. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T109478633A109478682.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d Liopholis slateri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 1 January 2020.
- ^ 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. (Egernia slateri, p. 245).
Further reading
[edit]- Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
- Gardner MG, Hugall AF, Donnellan SC, Hutchinson MN, Foster R (2008). "Molecular systematics of social skinks: phylogeny and taxonomy of the Egernia group (Reptilia: Scincidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154 (4): 781–794. (Liopholis slateri, new combination).
- Pavey CR, Burwell CJ, Nano CEM (2010). "Foraging Ecology and Habitat Use of Slater's Skink (Egernia slateri): An Endangered Australian Desert Lizard". Journal of Herpetology 44 (4): 563–571.
- Storr GM (1968). "Revision of the Egernia whitei species-group (Lacertilia: Scincidae)". Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 51 (2): 51–62. (Egernia slateri, new species; E. s. slateri, new subspecies; E. s. virgata, new subspecies).
- Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280. (Liopholis slateri, p. 332).
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