Ctenotus aphrodite INGRAM & CZECHURA, 1990

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Oorida Ctenotus
Synonym	Ctenotus aphrodite INGRAM & CZECHURA 1990: 409 Ctenotus aphrodite — COGGER 2000: 750 Ctenotus aphrodite — COGGER 2014
Distribution	Australia (SW Queensland) Type locality: Oorida area, Diamantina Lakes, Queensland (23°46’S 141°08’E)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: QM J41814, (R Atherton & G Porter, 12.iii.83)
Diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS: A moderately large (SV 72) Clenotus with a pattern of stripes (five black and four white dorsal stripes between the dorsolateral stripes) and an upper lateral zone of white blotches on black; supralabials 8; subdigital lamellae narrowly calloused, 34 on fourth toe; four supraoculars; 3-4 ear lobules; and 31 midbody scales. (INGRAM & CZECHURA 1990) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. However, these details, e.g. detailed descriptions (about about .62 pages) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material.
Comment	Synonymy: Ctenotus aphrodite is a synonym of C. septenarius (P. Couper, Glenn Shea, pers. comm., 6 March 2019), but there seems to be no published record of a synonymization, so we retain the two for the time being. Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). Limb morphology: 5 digits, 5 toes (Singhal et al. 2018, Cogger 2014)
Etymology	Named after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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. 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 Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - 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 192 (4): 432-447 - get paper here
External links	file:////Users/uetz/lab/grants/NSF reptile database/figures from Shai… Google images

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