Lerista kennedyensis

Lerista kennedyensis
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Lerista
Species:	L. kennedyensis
Binomial name
	Lerista kennedyensis; Kendrick, 1989

Last updated December 13, 2025

Lerista kennedyensis, also known commonly as Kennedy's lerista, the Kennedy Range broad-blazed slider, and the Kennedy Range 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]

Etymology

The specific name, kennedyensis, refers to the Kennedy Range of mountains.^[3]

Description

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

The flanks are pale orange-brown. The lower eyelid is fused. There is a ventro-lateral keel on each side of the anterior portion of the body. Average snout-to-vent length (SVL) is 5.8 centimetres (2.3 in).^[4]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. kennedyensis is sandy desert and shrubland.^[1]

Reproduction

L. kennedyensis is oviparous.^[2]

References

1 2 Gaikhorst, G.; Lloyd, R.; Cowan, M.; Shea, G.; Maryan, B. (2017). "Lerista kennedyensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 e.T178197A101745150. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T178197A101745150.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
1 2 3 Lerista kennedyensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 22 March 2015.
↑ 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 kennedyensis, p. 139).
↑ 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 kennedyensis, pp. 370–371).

Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
Kendrick PG (1989). "Two New Species of Lerista (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from the Cape Range and Kennedy Range of Western Australia". Journal of Herpetology23 (4): 350–355. (Lerista kennedyensis, new species).
Storr GM, Smith LA, Johnstone RE (1999). Lizards of Western Australia. I. Skinks, Revised Edition. Perth: Western Australian Museum. 291 pp. ISBN 978-0730726562.

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[iucn_status_18_November_2021-1] 1 2 Gaikhorst, G.; Lloyd, R.; Cowan, M.; Shea, G.; Maryan, B. (2017). "Lerista kennedyensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 e.T178197A101745150. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T178197A101745150.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.

[RDB-2] 1 2 3 Lerista kennedyensis 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 kennedyensis, 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 kennedyensis, pp. 370–371).

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