Lerista emmotti
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Lerista
Species:
L. emmotti
Binomial name
Lerista emmotti

Lerista emmotti, also known commonly as the Noonbah robust slider, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Queensland in Australia.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, emmotti, is in honor of Angus Emmott (born 1962), who is an Australian sheep farmer and naturalist.[3]

Geographic range

Native to central Queensland,[1] the type locality of L. emmotti is Noonbah Station, 140 km south of Longreach.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of L. emmotti are savanna and shrubland.[1]

Description

L. emmotti has two digits on each of its four feet.[2]

Behavior

L. emmotti is terrestrial and fossorial.[1]

Reproduction

L. emmotti is oviparous.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Vanderduys, E.; Amey, A.; Couper, P.; Sanderson, C. (2018). "Lerista emmotti ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T109475901A109475909. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T109475901A109475909.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Lerista emmotti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2015.
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lerista emmotti, p. 83).

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