Bougainville's skink

Bougainville's skink (Lerista bougainvillii ) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae.[3] This species is also commonly called the south-eastern slider.[2][4]

Bougainville's skink
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Lerista
Species:
L. bougainvillii
Binomial name
Lerista bougainvillii
(Gray, 1839)
Synonyms[2]
  • Riopa Brougainvillii [sic]
    Gray, 1839
  • Lygosoma bougainvillii
    — A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839
  • Rhodona bougainvillii
    — M.A. Smith, 1937
  • Nodorha bougainvillii
    — Mittleman, 1952
  • Lerista bougainvillii
    — Greer, 1967

Etymology

Both the specific name, bougainvillii, and the common name, Bougainville's skink, are in honor of French naval officer Hyacinthe de Bougainville.[4]

Geographic range

L. bougainvillii is found in south-eastern Australia, including north-eastern Tasmania and many Bass Strait islands.[3]

Description

Bougainville's skink has very reduced limbs and moves in a snake-like manner.[3]

Habitat

L. bougainvillii is seldom seen as much of its life is spent beneath leaf-litter, loose sand, and thin stone slabs.[3][5]

References
  1. Shea, G., Cogger, H. & Clemann, N. 2018. Lerista bougainvillii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T109475231A109475256. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T109475231A109475256.en. Downloaded on 16 June 2020.
  2. "Lerista bougainvillii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Cogger HG (1979). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Sydney: Reed. 608 pp. ISBN 0-589-50108-9.
  4. 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).
  5. 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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