Lerista jacksoni explained

Lerista jacksoni, also known commonly as Jackson's lerista, Jackson's slider, and Jackson's three-toed slider, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Australian state of Western Australia.

Etymology

The specific name, jacksoni, is in honor of Gregory Jackson who is a layout artist for the Western Australian Museum.^[1]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. jacksoni is rocky areas.

Description

L. jacksoni has three digits on each of its four feet. It has four supraciliaries, paired frontoparietals, and a fused lower eyelid. It may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of .^[2]

Behavior

L. jacksoni is terrestrial and saxicolous.

Reproduction

L. jacksoni is oviparous.

Further reading

• Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. .
• Smith LA, Adams M (2007). "Revision of the Lerista muelleri species-group (Lacertilia: Scincidae) in Western Australia, with a redescription of L. muelleri (Fischer, 1881) and the description of nine new species". Records of the Western Australian Museum 23: 309–357. (Lerista jacksoni, new species, pp. 324–325, Figure 11).

Notes and References

1. [species:Bo Beolens|Beolens B]
2. [species:Steve K. Wilson|Wilson S]