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Bassiana duperreyi (GRAY, 1838)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Eugongylinae, Sauria (lizards) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesBold-striped Cool-skink, Three-lined Skink 
SynonymTiliqua duperreyi GRAY 1838: 292
Lygosoma duperreyii - DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 715 (part.)
Eulepis duperreyi — FITZINGER 1843 (fide SMITH 1937: 223)
Leiolopisma duperreyi — GREER 1982
Leiolopisma trilineatum — GREER 1982
Leiolopisma trilineatum — COGGER 1983
Acritoscincus duperreyi — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984
Bassiana duperreyi - HUTCHINSON et al. 1990
Pseudemoia duperreyi - FRANK & RAMUS 1995
Leiolopisma eulepis — FRANK & RAMUS 1995: 188 (nom. nud.)
Bassiana duperreyi — COGGER 2000: 561
Bassiana duperreyi — FLATT et al. 2001
Bassiana duperreyi — DUBEY & SHINE 2010
Acritoscincus duperreyi — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 144 
DistributionAustralia (New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria)

Type locality: Tasmania Map legend:
TDWG region - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.

NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
 
TypesLectotype: MNHP 7102 (total length 131.5 mm), from Tasmania (original description cites Kangaroo Is., S. A.), designated by Rawlinson (cited as “in prep.” by COGGER 1983).
Syntypes: MNHP 7102 (Tasmania, two specimens), from New Zealand and Tasmania (original description cites New Zealand and Australia). 
CommentNomenclature of this species need revision.

Reproduction: oviparous. Bassiana duperreyi has been studied because of its extraembryonic membrane development which seems to be significant for the evolution of placentation. There seems to be both temperature-dependent (TSD) and genetic sex determination (GSD) in this species (SHINE et al. 2002). Radder et al. (2009) show that sex in this species also depends on egg size. In fact, if (and only if) eggs are incubated at low temperatures, removing yolk from a newly laid egg turns the offspring into a male. Adding yolk from a larger (but not smaller) egg turns the recipient egg's offspring into a female. Remarkably, then, offspring sex in this species is the end result of an interaction between three mechanisms: sex chromosomes, nest temperatures, and yolk allocation.

Type species: Tiliqua duperreyi is also the type species of the genus Eulepis. Probably listed in error by FRANK & RAMUS 1995. 
References
  • Baehr, M. 1976. Beiträge zur Verbreitung und Ökologie tasmanischer Reptilien. Stuttgarter Beitr. Naturk. (A) 292: 1-24
  • Cogger,H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp.
  • Dubey, S. & Shine, R. 2010. Evolutionary Diversification of the Lizard Genus Bassiana (Scincidae) across Southern Australia. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12982 - get paper here
  • Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. 1839. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Vol.5. Roret/Fain et Thunot, Paris, 871 pp. - get paper here
  • Ezaz, T. et al. 2009. Sex Chromosome Evolution in Lizards: Independent Origins and Rapid Transitions. Cytogenet Genome Res 127: 249-260 - get paper here
  • Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium, fasciculus primus, Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel, Wien: 106 pp. - get paper here
  • FLATT THOMAS; RICHARD SHINE; PEDRO A. BORGES-LANDAEZ and SHARON J. DOWNES 2001. Phenotypic variation in an oviparous montane lizard (Bassiana duperreyi): the effects of thermal and hydric incubation environments. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 74: 339–350 - get paper here
  • Frank, Norman & Ramus, Erica 1995. A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World. Pottsville: N G Publishing Inc., 377 pp.
  • Gray, J. E. 1838. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Part 1. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1) 1: 274-283 - get paper here
  • Greer, Allen E. 1982. A new species of Leiolopisma (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Western Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 34 (12): 549-573
  • Hutchinson M N; Donnellan S C; Baverstock P R; Krieg M; Simms S; Burgin S 1990. Immunological relationships and generic revision of the Australian lizards assigned to the genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Australian Journal of Zoology 38 (5): 535-554 - get paper here
  • Leal, Francisca and Martha Patricia Ramírez-Pinilla 2010. Evolution and development of the extraembryonic membranes in lizards: Heterochronies and placentotrophy. Herp. Cons. Biol. 5 (2) - get paper here
  • Radder, R.S.; Pike, D.A.; Quinn, A. and Shine, R. 2009. Offspring Sex in a Lizard Depends on Egg Size. Curr. Biol. 19 (13): 1102-1105, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.05.027 - get paper here
  • Radder, Rajkumar S.; Alexander E. Quinn, Arthur Georges, Stephen D. Sarre and Richard Shine 2008. Genetic evidence for co-occurrence of chromosomal and thermal sex-determining systems in a lizard. Biol. Lett. 4: 176–178
  • Radder, Rajkumar; Shine, Richard 2007. Germinal bed condition in a polyautochronic single-clutched lizard, Bassiana duperreyi (Scincidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 28 (1): 159-162 - get paper here
  • Rawlinson, P. A. 1974. Biogeography and ecology of the reptiles of Tasmania and the Bass Strait area. In: Williams, W. D. (ed.) Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania,Chapt. 11. The Hague: Junk, pp. 291-338
  • Shine R, Elphick MJ, Donnellan S. 2002. Co-occurrence of multiple, supposedly incompatible modes of sex determination in a lizard population. Ecol Lett 5: 486–489
  • Smith,M.A. 1937. A review of the genus Lygosoma (Scincidae: Reptilia) and its allies. Records of the Indian Museum 39 (3): 213-234
  • Stewart, James R. and Tom W. Ecay 2010. Patterns of maternal provision and embryonic mobilization of calcium in oviparous and viviparous squamate reptiles. Herp. Cons. Biol. 5 (2) - get paper here
  • Storr, G. M., Smith, L. A. & Johnstone, R. E. 1981. Lizards of Western Australia. I. Skinks. Perth: University of Western Australia Press and Western Australian Museum, 200 pp.
  • Taylor, R. J.;Dudley, A.;Gale, P. G. 1993. Reptiles and amphibians in sclerophyll forest surrounding Old Chum Dam in north-eastern Tasmania Herpetofauna (Sydney) 23 (1): 26-31
  • Wilson,S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
 
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