Lerista walkeri (BOULENGER, 1891)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Coastal Kimberley Slider
Synonym	Lygosoma walkeri BOULENGER 1891: 405 Rhodona walkeri — SMITH 1937: 230 Lygosoma (Rhodona) walkeri — GLAUERT 1960 Lerista walkeri — GREER 1967 Lerista walkeri — STORR 1976: 249 Lerista walkeri — COGGER 1983: 177 Lerista walkeri — COGGER 2000: 536 Marrunisauria walkeri — WELLS 2012: 228 Lerista walkeri — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Distribution	Australia (Western Australia) Type locality: Roebuck Bay and Condillac Is., W. A.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946.8.15.59, BMNH 1946.8.15.62
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Moderately small Lerista with digits 2 + 2 (locally 2 + 3), eyelid movable, frontonasals fused or paired, and dorsal pattern of dark dots. Distinguishable from L. borealis by small last supraciliary (much smaller than third and fourth), long suture between nasals, darker and more heavily spotted coloration, greater size, shorter limbs and fewer subdigital lamellae. (Storr 1976)
Comment	Limb morphology: 2 digits, 2 toes
Etymology	Named after James John Walker (1851-1939) who served in the Royal Navy and was an amateur natural historian and entomologist.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Boulenger, G. A. 1891. Description of a new scincoid lizard from North-western Australia. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 8: 405 - 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 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 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 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. 1971. The genus Lerista (Lacertilia: Scincidae) in Western Australia. J R. Soc. West. Aust. 54: 59-75 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., 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. 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/walkeri http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/pelusios-adansonii-017/ Google images

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