Lerista kingi explained

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

Etymology

The specific name, kingi, is in honor of Australian herpetologist Dennis King (1942–2002).^[1]

Description

L. kingi has three digits on each of its four feet. Adults usually have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about and are brown dorsally.^[2] It has a fused lower eyelid, paired frontoparietal scales, and five supraciliary scales.^[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of L. kingi are shrubland and savanna.

Reproduction

L. kingi is oviparous.

Further reading

• Cogger HG (2018). Reptiles & Amphibians of Australia, Updated Seventh Edition. Clayton South, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxxii + 1,060 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 (4): 309–357. (Lerista kingi, new species, pp. 325–327, Figure 13).

Notes and References

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