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Lerista frosti (ZIETZ, 1920)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Centralian Slider 
SynonymLygosoma frosti ZIETZ 1920: 217 (nom. nov. pro Rhodona tetradactyla)
Rhodona tetradactyla LUCAS & FROST 1895: 268
Rhodona frosti — SMITH 1937: 230
Lygosoma (Rhodona) frosti — GLAUERT 1960: 94
Lerista frosti — STORR 1976: 245
Lerista frosti — COGGER 1983: 173
Lerista frosti — STORR 1985: 311
Lerista frosti — COGGER 2000: 519
Tychismia frosti — WELLS 2012: 265
Lerista frosti — WILSON & SWAN 2010 
DistributionAustralia (Northern Territory, South Australia?, Western Australia?)

Type locality: Tempe Downs, N. T.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: NMV D 11756 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A small slender Lerista with four fingers, four toes, movable eyelids, small ear aperture (usually smaller than nostril, occasionally as large), comparatively short foreleg (less than 6 mm long), pale reddish-brown tail, and narrow, inferiorly ill-defined, dark upper lateral stripe. (Storr 1985)


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CommentNon Mocoa tetradactyla O’ Shaughnessy, 1879. Rhodona tetradactyla Lucas and Frost, 1895 was a junior secondary homonym of Mocoa tetradactyla O’ Shaughnessy, 1879 at some point.

Limb morphology: 4 digits, 4 toes 
EtymologyNamed after Charles Frost (1853-1915), Australian herpetologist. See Shea 2003 for biographical details. 
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.
  • 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
  • Jolly, C., Schembri, B., & Macdonald, S. 2023. Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Northern Territory. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne - get paper here
  • Lucas, A. H. S., and C. Frost. 1895. Preliminary notice of certain new species of lizards from central Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 7: 264-269 - get paper here
  • Shea, G.M. 2003. The HORN Expedition (1894) to Central Australia: New Directions in Australian Herpetology. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 52 (3/4): 245-273 - 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 1985. Revision of Lerista frosti and allied secies (Lacertilia: Scincidae). Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 12 (3): 307-316 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
  • Zietz, F. R. 1920. Catalogue of Australian lizards. Rec. South Austral. Mus. 1: 181-228 - get paper here
 
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