Slater's desert skink

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.

Slater's desert skink
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Liopholis
Species:
L. slateri
Binomial name
Liopholis slateri
(Storr, 1968)
Synonyms[2]
  • Egernia slateri
    Storr, 1968
  • Liopholis slateri
    — Gardner et al., 2008

Etymology

The specific name, slateri, is in honour of Australian herpetologist Kenneth R. Slater.[3]

Geographic range

L. slateri is found in Northern Territory and Southern Australia in central Australia.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of L. slateri are forest and shrubland.[1]

Reproduction

L. slateri is viviparous.[2]

Subspecies

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
  1. Chapple DC, McDonald P, Hutchinson M, Cogger H, Fenner A (2018). "Liopholis slateri ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T109478633A109478682. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T109478633A109478682.en. Downloaded on 22 January 2020.
  2. Liopholis slateri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 1 January 2020.
  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. (Egernia slateri, p. 245).

Further reading
  • 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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