Ctenotus olympicus HUTCHINSON & DONNELLAN, 1999

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: a Spotted Ctenotus
Synonym	Ctenotus olympicus HUTCHINSON & DONNELLAN 1999: 182 Ctenotus olympicus — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Distribution	Australia (Lake Eyre and Lake Torrens basins of central and northern South Australia, extending northwards into the southern Northern Territory and east and south through the northern Flinders Ranges to the Olary Plains of eastern South Australia and the adjacent west of New South Wales). Type locality: 48 km S of Olympic Dam, SA, in 30° 48’ S, 136° 52’ E
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: SAMA R20949
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (n=49): A member of the C. leonhardii species group with the dorsal ground colour pale heige to medium brown. often with a metallic lustre. Black vertebral stripe usually present. occupying no more than one-quarter of each paravertebral scale row and with very weak or no pale edging Laterodorsal dark brown to black stripes. if present, with medial margins irregular, broken up by scattered lighter centred scales. Light dorsolateral line present or absent. Midlateral white stripe, if present, not extending anteriorly beyond midbody and often completely reduced to a zone of whitish spots. Size relatively small, SVL. usually less than 70 mm; tail moderate (mean 187% SVL). (Hutchinson & Donellan 1999) 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 1.16 pages) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material.
Comment	Limb morphology: 5 digits, 5 toes (Singhal et al. 2018, Cogger 2014)
Etymology	After Mt Olympus, the home of the Greek gods, in reference to the frequent naming of Ctenotus species after Greek deities, plus an allusion to the type locality, Olympic Dam (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 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 Hutchinson,M.N. & DONNELLAN,S.C. 1999. Genetic variation and taxonomy of the lizards assigned to Ctenotus uber orientalis STORR (Squamata: Scincidae) with description of a new species. Rec. South Austral. Mus. 32 (2): 173-189 - get paper here Jolly, C., Schembri, B., & Macdonald, S. 2023. Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Northern Territory. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne - 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 Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp. 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.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/scincidae.pdf http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Ctenotus/olympicus Google images

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