Ctenotus agrestis WILSON & COUPER, 1995

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Mitchell Grass Ctenotus
Synonym	Ctenotus agrestis WILSON & COUPER 1995 Ctenotus agrestis — COGGER 2000: 750 Ctenotus agrestis — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Distribution	Australia (Queensland) Type locality: Brendallan Stn, via Aramac, Queensland (22°57’S 145°14’E
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: QM J46694, (SK Wilson & PJ Couper, 6.iii.1987)
Diagnosis
Comment	Member of the C. lesueurii group. It bears some resemblance to C. robustus and C. joanae. Colour, pattern and scalation readily distinguish it from these species. Limb morphology: 5 digits, 5 toes (Singhal et al. 2018, Cogger 2014)
Etymology	“Latin – agrestis relating to the fields, alluding to the open, grassland habitat at the type locality” (Wilson & Couper, 1995). (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 Horner, P. & A. FISHER 1998. Ctenotus rimacola sp. nov. (Scincidae), a new species of lizard with two allopatric subspecies, from the Ord-Victoria region of northwestern Australia. Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 19 (2): 187-200. - 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 - get paper here Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp. Wilson, S.K. & P.J. Couper 1995. A new Ctenotus (Reptilia: Scincidae) from the Mitchell grass plains of central Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38 (2): 687-690. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Ctenotus/agrestis http://www.tropicalherping.com/publications/books/mindo/dendrophidion… Google images

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