Species of lizard
Eremiascincus brongersmai | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Scincidae |
Genus: | Eremiascincus |
Species: | E. brongersmai
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Binomial name | |
Eremiascincus brongersmai (Storr, 1972)
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Synonyms | |
Eremiascincus brongersmai, also known commonly as Brongersma's tree skink and the: brown-sided bar-lipped skink, is: a species of lizard in theββfamily Scincidae. The species is endemicββto the state of Western Australia.
Etymologyβ»
The specific name, brongersmai, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Leo Brongersma.
Habitatβ»
The preferred natural habitats of E. brongersmai are rocky areas, shrubland, savanna, and forest.
Descriptionβ»
E. brongersmai has fully developed limbs, "with five digits on each front foot." And five digits on each hind foot.
Reproductionβ»
E. brongersmai is oviparous.
Referencesβ»
- ^ Shea, "G."; Cogger, H. (2017). "Eremiascincus brongersmai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T178593A101749779. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T178593A101749779.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Eremiascincus brongersmai at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2015.
- ^ 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. (Glaphyromorphus brongersmai, p. 39).
Further readingβ»
- Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and "Amphibians of Australia," Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
- Mecke S, Doughty P, Donnellan SC (2009). "A new species of Eremiascincus (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from the "Great Sandy Desert and Pilbara Coast," Western Australia and reassignment of eight species from Glaphyromorphusββto Eremiascincus ". Zootaxa 2246: 1β20. (Eremiascincus brongersmai, new combination, p. 8). (in English, with an abstract in German).
- Storr GM (1972). "Revisionary notes on the Sphenomorphus isolepis complex (Lacertilia, Scincidae)". Zoologische Mededelingen 47: 1β5. (Sphenomorphus brongersmai, new species).
- Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.