Lerista orientalis (DE VIS, 1889)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: North-eastern Orange-tailed Slider
Synonym	Miculia orientalis DE VIS 1889 Lerista orientalis — GREER 1967 Lerista orientalis — COGGER 1983: 175 Lerista orentialis — ZOOLOGICAL RECORD Lerista orientalis — COGGER 2000: 528 Spectrascincus orientalis — WELLS 2012: 290 Lerista orientalis — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Distribution	Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland) Type locality: Barkly Tablelands (ex Gregory Downs), Qld.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: lost, ws QM, presumed lost fide Covacevich (1971)
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A small slender Lerista with 4 fingers, 4 toes, and immovable eyelid (a spectacle) differing from L. zonulata mainly in its broad dark diffuse upper lateral zone with more or less definite upper edge but no definite lower edge, and from L. ingrami in its greater size, overall darker colouration, more numerous superciliaries (5 vs 4 or 5) and midbody scale rows (mostly 20 vs mostly 18) and larger nasals and frontoparietals. (Storr 1991) Additional details (1725 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Limb morphology: 4 digits, 4 toes
Etymology	From the Latin orientalis (eastern), in reference to the distribution. At the time of description, it was the most eastern species in the then-genus Miculia. (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 Covacevich, J. 1971. Amphibian and reptile type specimens in the Queensland Museum. [type catalogue] Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 49-68 - get paper here De Vis, CW. 1889. Characters of a naked-eyed skink apparently new. Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 5: 160-161 - get paper here Greer A E 1990. The taxonomic status of Lerista aericeps Storr 1986 with a diagnosis of the Lerista orientalis species group. Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 14 (4): 443-448 - get paper here Greer, Allen E. 1967. A new generic arrangement for some Australian scincid lizards. Breviora (267): 1-19 - 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. 1991. Revision of Lerista orientalis (Lacertilia: Scincidae) of northern Australia. Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 51 (2): 413-418. - 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 Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Lerista/orientalis Google images

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