Biology:Lerista colliveri
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Short description: Species of lizard
| Lerista colliveri | |
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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. colliveri
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| Binomial name | |
| Lerista colliveri Couper & Ingram, 1992
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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 .[1]
Etymology
The specific name, colliveri, is in honor of Frederick Stanley "Stan" Colliver (1908–1991), who was an Australian geologist and malacologist.[2]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitats of L. colliveri are forest and savanna.[3]
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".[1][4]
Behavior
L. colliveri is terrestrial and fossorial.[3]
Reproduction
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lerista colliveri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2015.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cite error: Invalid
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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.
Wikidata ☰ Q3230160 entry
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