Lerista kendricki

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Lerista kendricki
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Lerista
Species:
L. kendricki
Binomial name
Lerista kendricki
Storr, 1991

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. [2]

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Etymology

The specific name, kendricki, is in honor of Australian zoologist Peter G. Kendrick. [3]

Description

L. kendricki has no front legs, and each small, slender back leg has only two digits. [2]

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 6.7 cm (2.6 in). [4]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. kendricki is sandy shrubland. [1]

Behavior

L. kendricki is terrestrial [1] and fossorial. [5]

Reproduction

L. kendricki is oviparous. [2]

Taxonomy

L. kendricki belongs to the Lerista nichollsi species group. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Gaikhorst, G.; Lloyd, R. (2017). "Lerista kendricki ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017: e.T109476560A109476565. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T109476560A109476565.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Lerista kendricki at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 22 March 2015.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lerista kendricki, p. 139).
  4. Wilson S, Swan G (2023). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Sixth Edition. Sydney: Reed New Holland Publishers. 688 pp. ISBN   978-1-92554-671-2. (Lerista kendricki, pp. 370–371).
  5. Morinaga & Bergmann, 2020.

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