Aprasia wicherina MARYAN, ADAMS & APLIN, 2015

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Higher Taxa	Pygopodidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Wicherina Worm Lizard
Synonym	Aprasia wicherina MARYAN, ADAMS & APLIN 2015
Distribution	Australia (W Western Australia) Type locality: Wicherina Water Reserve (28°43′02′′S, 115°01′11′′E).
Reproduction	oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: WAM R173106, female collected by R. Lloyd and B. Maryan on 1 August 2013; paratypes: WAM
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A small (SVL to 92 mm) and very slender, elongate- bodied member of the A. repens species-group that lacks overt sexual dimorphism and has 14 midbody scale rows; 146–162 ventral scales; 142–156 vertebral scales; five upper labials with first anteriorly fused to nasal; nasal suture variably contacting prefrontal or second upper labial; postocular fused with fourth upper labial; and simple colouration of longitudinal lines of brownish streaks on a yellowish-brown dorsum with a densely flecked ventral surface.
Comment	Similar species: A. rostrata is the closest relative of A. wicherina. The geographically nearest congeners are A. clairae and A. repens. Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	The species name refers to the area of Wicherina, where all the type material is known from, and a local indigenous word meaning water hole (S. Heriot, pers. comm.). The epithet is to be used as a noun in apposition.
References	Ellis, Ryan J.; Paul Doughty and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. An annotated type catalogue of the geckos and pygopods (Squamata: Gekkota: Carphodactylidae, Diplodactylidae, Gekkonidae, Pygopodidae) in the collection of the Western Australian Museum. Records of the Western Australian Museum 33: 051–094 - get paper here Maryan, Brad; Mark Adams, and Ken P. Aplin 2015. Taxonomic resolution of the Aprasia repens species-group (Squamata: Pygopodidae) from the Geraldton Sandplains: a description of a new species and additional mainland records of A. clairae. Rec. Austr. Mus. 30 012–032, DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.30(1).2015.012-032 Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List http://zoobank.org/NomenclaturalActs/72C52442- FD0F-4B44-805B-210AD19B0D71 Google images

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