Lerista walkeri

Lerista walkeri, also known commonly as the coastal Kimberley slider and Walker's lerista, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.

Lerista walkeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Lerista
Species:
L. walkeri
Binomial name
Lerista walkeri
(Boulenger, 1891)
Synonyms[2]
  • Lygosoma walkeri
    Boulenger, 1891
  • Rhodona walkeri
    — M.A. Smith, 1937
  • Lerista walkeri
    — Greer, 1967
  • Marrunisauria walkeri
    — Wells, 2012

Etymology

The specific name, walkeri, is in honor of British entomologist James John Walker.[3]

Geographic range

L. walkeri is found in Western Australia, Australia.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of L. walkeri are forest, shrubland, and rocky areas.[1]

Description

L. walkeri has only two digits on each of its four feet.[2]

Reproduction

L. walkeri is oviparous.[2]

References
  1. Cogger H, Shea G (2017). "Lerista walkeri ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T178457A101747428. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T178457A101747428.en. Downloaded on 25 June 2020.
  2. Lerista walkeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2020.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lerista walkeri, p. 279).

Further reading
  • Boulenger GA (1891). "Description of a new Scincoid Lizard from North-western Australia". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series 8: 405. (Lygosoma walkeri, new species).
  • Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
  • Skinner A, Lee MSY, Hutchinson MN (2008). "Rapid and repeated limb loss in a clade of scincid lizards". BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 310 [9 pages]. (Lerista walkeri, Figure 1).
  • Wilson, Steve; Swan, Gerry (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.



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