Lerista kendricki explained
Lerista kendricki, also known commonly as the dark broad-blazed slider and the Shark Bay broad-striped slider, is a species of skink, a lizard in the subfamily Sphenomorphinae of the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Australian state of Western Australia.
Etymology
The specific name, kendricki, is in honor of Australian zoologist Peter G. Kendrick.[1]
Description
L. kendricki has no front legs, and each small, slender back leg has only two digits.
The lower eyelid is fused. The dark broad vertebral stripe is continuous with the dark top of the head. Maximum snout-to-vent length (SVL) is .[2]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of L. kendricki is sandy shrubland.
Behavior
L. kendricki is terrestrial and fossorial.[3]
Reproduction
L. kendricki is oviparous.
Taxonomy
L. kendricki belongs to the Lerista nichollsi species group.
Further reading
- Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. .
- Morinaga, Gen; Bergmann, Philip J. (2020). "Evolution of fossorial locomotion in the transition from tetrapod to snake-like in lizards". Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 287: 20200192.
- Skinner A, Lee MSY, Hutchinson MN (2008). "Rapid and repeated limb loss in a clade of scincid lizards". BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: "310" (nine pages). (Lerista kendricki, p. [4], Figure 1).
- Storr GM (1991). "Four new members of the Lerista nichollsi complex (Lacertilia: Scincidae)". Records of the Western Australian Museum 15 (1): 139–147. (Lerista kendricki, new species, pp. 142–143, Figure 3).
Notes and References
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- Wilson S, Swan G (2023). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Sixth Edition. Sydney: Reed New Holland Publishers. 688 pp. . (Lerista kendricki, pp. 370–371).
- Morinaga & Bergmann, 2020.
