Ctenotus terrareginae INGRAM & CZECHURA, 1990

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Hinchinbrook Ctenotus
Synonym	Ctenotus terrareginae INGRAM & CZECHURA 1990 Ctenotus terrareginae — COGGER 2000: 753 Ctenotus terrareginae — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Distribution	Australia (NE Queensland, and offshore Hinchinbrook Island)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: QM J41996
Diagnosis
Comment	Limb morphology: 5 digits, 5 toes (Singhal et al. 2018, Cogger 2014)
Etymology	From the Latin terra (land) plus reginae (of the queen), meaning Queensland, where the type locality is located. (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. Conroy, S. 1999. Lizard Assemblage Response to a Forest Ecotone in Northeastern Australia: A Synecological Approach Journal of Herpetology 33 (3): 409-419. - get paper here 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 Ingram G J; Czechura G V 1990. Four new species of striped skinks from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 29 (3): 407-410 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Ctenotus… https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/420770443480893/ Google images

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