Lerista microtis (GRAY, 1845)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies	Lerista microtis microtis (GRAY 1845) Lerista microtis intermedia STORR 1991 Lerista microtis schwaneri STORR 1991
Common Names	E: South-western Slider
Synonym	Mocoa microtis GRAY 1845: 83 Mocoa microtis — MÜLLER 1880 Rhodona microtis — SMITH 1937: 230 Lygosoma (Rhodona) microtis — GLAUERT 1960: 94 Lerista microtis — GREER 1967 Lerista microtis — COGGER 1983: 175 Nodorha microtis — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 36 Lerista microtis — COGGER 2000: 525 Lerista microtis — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Lerista microtis microtis (GRAY 1845) Mocoa microtis GRAY 1845: 83 Nodorha microtis microtis — WELLS 2012: 94 Lerista microtis intermedia STORR 1991 Lerista microtis intermedia — STORR et al. 1999 Nodorha microtis intermedia — WELLS 2012: 93 Lerista microtis schwaneri STORR 1991 Nodorha schwaneri — WELLS 2012: 96
Distribution	Australia (South Australia, Western Australia) microtis: SW Australia; Type locality: Swan River, W. A. intermedia: S Western Australia. Type locality: Culham Inlet, WA [33°55'S 120°04'E]. schwaneri: Nuyts Archipelago, South Australia. Type locality: Franklin Island (west), SA [32°27'S 133°39'E].
Reproduction	Vivparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.18.64 Holotype: WAM 89408, collected by R.Elston in 1982 [intermedia] Holotype: SAMA 25088 (South Australian Museum), collected on 15 December 1983 by K. Jordan [schwaneri]
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy mainly after COGGER 1983. Lerista microtis arenicola STORR 1971 has been elevated to species status. Limb morphology: 5 digits, 5 toes
Etymology	Presumably named after the Greek mikros (small) plus otos (ear), referring to the small ear size of Lerista species. The species was first described in the genus Mocoa, the other species of which had larger ear apertures. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024)
References	Blackburn, Daniel G. 1999. Are Viviparity and Egg-guarding Evolutionarily Labile in Squamates? Herpetologica 55 (4): 556-573 - get paper here 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 Glauert, L. 1960. Herpetological miscellanea. XII. The family Scincidae in Western Australia. Pt. 2. The genus Lygosoma. Western Australian Naturalist 7 (4): 81-99 - get paper here Gray, J. E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman, London: xxvii + 289 pp. - get paper here Greer, Allen E. 1967. A new generic arrangement for some Australian scincid lizards. Breviora (267): 1-19 - 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 Müller, F. 1880. Erster Nachtrag zum Katalog der herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums. Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel 7: 120-165 - 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 Smith, M.A. 1937. A review of the genus Lygosoma (Scincidae: Reptilia) and its allies. Records of the Indian Museum 39 (3): 213-234 Storr G M. 1991. Revision of Lerista microtis (Lacertilia: Scincidae). Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 51 (2): 469-478 - get paper here Storr, G. M. 1976. Revisionary notes on the Lerista (Lacertilia: Scincidae) of Western Australia. Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 4: 241-256 - 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 Wiens, J.J. 2009. Estimating rates and patterns of morphological evolution from phylogenies: lessons in limb lability from Australian Lerista lizards. Journal of Biology 2009, 8:19 - 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/Lerista/microtis https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/595382306019705/ http://zoobank.org/DD72E44B-2EA4-4C34-AAB6-1799742733AF Google images

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