| Simoselaps anomalus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Elapidae |
| Genus: | Simoselaps |
| Species: | S. anomalus |
| Binomial name | |
| Simoselaps anomalus (Sternfeld, 1919) | |
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Simoselaps anomalus, also known as the northern desert banded snake, is a species of mildly venomous burrowing snake that is endemic to Australia.
The species grows to an average of about 25 cm in length. [2]
The species is oviparous, with an average clutch size of three. [2]
The species’ range covers a broad swathe of arid inland Australia from north-western South Australia and the south-west of the Northern Territory, across Western Australia to the north-western coast of the continent. [2] The type locality is the Hermannsburg Mission, on the upper Finke River, Northern Territory. [3]
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The great desert skink, also known as Kintore's egernia and by various names including tjakura in various Aboriginal Australian languages, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the western half of Australia. It is a burrowing lizard and extremely social.
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