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Concinnia ampla (COVACEVICH & MCDONALD, 1980)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Lemon-barred Forest-skink 
SynonymSphenomorphus amplus COVACEVICH & MCDONALD 1980
Sphenomorphus amplus — COGGER 1983
Concinnia amplus — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1983
Eulamprus amplus — FRANK & RAMUS 1995
Eulamprus amplus — COGGER 2000: 482
Eulamprus amplus — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Concinnia amplus — SKINNER et al. 2013
Concinnia ampla — CHAPPLE et al. 2021 
DistributionAustralia (CE Queensland)

Type locality: Finch Hatton Creek, Eungella National Park, mid-E Qld.  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: QM J26054; paratypes: QM 
DiagnosisDIAGNOSIS: S. amplus most closely resembles the Irian Jaya (Western New Guinea) species Otosaurus mimikanus (Boulenger 1914). It may be distinguished from O. mimikanus as follows: supranasal scales (usually 2 pairs* vs one pair); mid-body scale count (41-52 vs 40); lamellae under fourth toe (22-26 vs 15); colour and pattern (see type description Boulenger, 1914). These features also readily distinguish S. amplus from all Australian species of Sphenomorphus. No other Australian Sphenomorphus species have supranasals and only one species group has more than 40 mid-body scales. Species of the S. quoyi group have 24-44 mid-body scales (Cogger, 1975) but in addition to lacking supranasals, these species are strikingly coloured olive-brown dorsally with prominent yellow-cream dorsolateral longitudinal stripes, a pattern which is never present in S. amplus. (Covacevich & McDonald 1980)


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CommentVocalization: this species is one of the few skinks which produce sounds when captured (O’Connor 2003).

Limb morphology: 5 digits, 5 toes (Singhal et al. 2018, Brandley et al 2008)

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyPresumably named after the Latin amplus (large) in reference to the body size. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024) 
References
  • Chapple, David G; Roll, Uri; Böhm, Monika; Aguilar, Rocío Amey, Andrew P Austin, Chris C Baling, Marleen Barley, Anthony J Bates, Michael F Bauer, Aaron M Blackburn, Daniel G Bowles, Phil Brown, Rafe M Chandramouli, S R Chirio, Laurent Cogger, Hal Co 2021. Conservation Status of the World’s Skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and Geographic Patterns in Extinction Risk. Biological Conservation 257: 109101 - get paper here
  • Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here
  • Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp.
  • Couper, P., Covacevich, J., Amey, A. & Baker, A. 2006. The genera of skinks (Family Scincidae) of Australia and its island territories: diversity, distribution and identification. in: Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G.M. & Lee, M.S.Y. (eds.). Evolution and Zoogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, pp. 367-384
  • Covacevich J; McDonald K R 1980. Two new species of skinks from mid-eastern Queensland rain forest. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20(1): 95-101 - get paper here
  • O’Connor, Dave 2003. Vocalisation and aggression in the Prickly Forest Skink Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae. Australian Zoologist 32 (2): 265 - get paper here
  • Reeder, T.W. 2003. A phylogeny of the Australian Sphenomorphus group (Scincidae: Squamata) and the phylogenetic placement of the crocodile skinks (Tribolonotus): Bayesian approaches to assessing congruence and obtaining confidence in maximum likelihood inferred relationships. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27: 384–397 - get paper here
  • Russell, A. P., & Bauer, A. M. 2020. Vocalization by extant non‐avian reptiles: a synthetic overview of phonation and the vocal apparatus. The Anatomical Record - get paper here
  • Singhal, Sonal; Huateng Huang, Maggie R. Grundler, María R. Marchán-Rivadeneira, Iris Holmes, Pascal O. Title, Stephen C. Donnellan, and Daniel L. Rabosky 2018. Does Population Structure Predict the Rate of Speciation? A Comparative Test across Australia’s Most Diverse Vertebrate Radiation. The American Naturalist 192 (4): 432-447 - get paper here
  • Skinner, Adam; Mark N. Hutchinson, Michael S.Y. Lee 2013. Phylogeny and Divergence Times of Australian Sphenomorphus Group Skinks (Scincidae, Squamata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69 (3): 906–918 - get paper here
  • Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
  • Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
 
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