Lerista ingrami explained

Lerista ingrami, also known commonly as the McIvor River slider, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Queensland in Australia.

Etymology

The specific name, ingrami, is in honor of Australian herpetologist Glen Joseph Ingram.^[1]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. ingrami is coastal sand dunes.

Description

For its genus, L. ingrami is slender, very pale, and very small. Its average snout-to-vent length (SVL) is . It has four digits on each of its four feet. The eyelid is immovable, with a transparent "spectacle".^[2]

Behavior

L. ingrami is terrestrial and fossorial.

Reproduction

L. ingrami is oviparous.

Further reading

• Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. .
• Covacevich JA, Couper PJ, Roberts L (1997). "New data on Lerista ingrami, a rare skink from southern Cape York Peninsula, Australia". Memmoirs of the Queensland Museum 42 (1): 24.
• Storr GM (1991). "Revision of Lerista orientalis (Lacertilia: Scincidae) of northern Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum 51 (2): 413–417. (Lerista ingrami, new species, pp. 416–417).
• Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. .

Notes and References

1. [species:Bo Beolens|Beolens B]
2. [Glen Milton Storr|Storr GM]