| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Southern Slider |
| Synonym | Lerista dorsalis STORR 1985: 313
Lerista dorsalis — THORPE et al. 1991
Lerista dorsalis — COGGER 2000: 518
Tychismia dorsalis — WELLS 2012: 261
Lerista dorsalis — WILSON & SWAN 2010 |
| Distribution | Australia (South Australia including offshore islands [Boucaut, Duffield, Flinders, Greenly, Hareby, Kangaroo, Masillon, Pearsons, Reevesby, Roxby, South Neptunes, Spilsby, Thistle, Winceby], Western Australia)
Type locality: 4 km E Eucla, Western Australia, in 31° 40' S, 128° 34' E.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: WAM R70018; Paratypes: AMS (AM) |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A small slender to moderately large Lerista with four fingers, four toes, movable eyelids, small ear aperture (usually smaller than nostril, occasionally as large), comparatively short foreleg (usually less than 6 mm long), usually well-patterned back, lower surface of tail pink and usually immaculate, and wide, sharply defined, black upper lateral stripe. (Storr 1985)
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| Comment | Limb morphology: 4 digits, 4 toes |
| Etymology | From the Latin dorsalis (of the back), relating to the strong dorsal pattern. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024) |
| References |
- 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
- Fairbairn, John; Richard Shine, Craig Moritz, and Marianne Frommer 1998. Phylogenetic Relationships between Oviparous and Viviparous Populations of an Australian Lizard (Lerista bougainvillii, Scincidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol. 10 (1): 95–103 - get paper here
- Greer,A.E. 1990. Limb reduction in the scincid lizard genus Lerista. 2. Variation in the bone complements of the front and rear limbs and the number of postsacral vertebrae. Journal of Herpetology 24 (2): 142-150 - get paper here
- Morinaga, Gen and Philip J. Bergmann 2020. Evolution of fossorial locomotion in the transition from tetrapod to snake-like in lizards. Proc. R. Soc. B. 287: 20200192 - get paper here
- Shea, Glenn M; Sadlier, Ross A 1999. A catalogue of the non-fossil amphibian and reptile type specimens in the collection of the Australian Museum: types currently, previously and purportedly present. TECHNICAL REPORTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM 15, 1999: 1-91 - get paper here
- Skinner, Adam; Michael S Y Lee and Mark N Hutchinson 2008. Rapid and repeated limb loss in a clade of scincid lizards. [Lerista]. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:310 - get paper here
- Storr G M 1985. Revision of Lerista frosti and allied secies (Lacertilia: Scincidae). Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 12 (3): 307-316 - get paper here
- Storr, G. M.; L. A. Smith, and R. E. Johnstone 1999. Lizards of Western Australia. I. Skinks. Revised Edition. Western Australian Museum
- Thorpe, R.; A. Malhotra; Greer, A.E. 1991. Natural history notes on lizards from the Roe Plain, Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 18 (7): 178- 184. - 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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