Lerista karlschmidti (MARX & HOSMER, 1959)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Lesser Robust Fine-lined Slider
Synonym	Rhodona karlschmidti MARX & HOSMER 1959 Lerista karlschmidti — GREER 1967 Lerista karlschmidti — COGGER 1983 Gavisus karlschmidti — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984 Lerista karlschmidti — COGGER 2000: 522 Gavisus karlschmidti — WELLS 2012: 113 Lerista karlschmidti — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Distribution	Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland) Type locality: Woodstock, about 23 mi S of Townsville, N Qld.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: FMNH 97957
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Comment	Distribution: for a map of localities see Zimny et al. 2025: 527 (Fig. 1).
Etymology	Named after Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890-1957), American herpetologist who worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and later at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
References	Amey, A.P. & Couper, P.J. 2009. A new limb-reduced skink (Scincidae: Lerista) from the dry rainforest of north Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 2173: 19–30 - get paper here 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 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 Jolly, C., Schembri, B., & Macdonald, S. 2023. Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Northern Territory. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne - get paper here Marx, Hymen & Hosmer, William 1959. A new skink from Australia. Copeia 1959 (3): 207-208 - 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 Wells R W; Wellington C R 1984. A synopsis of the class Reptilia in Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology 1 (3-4): 73-129 [31 Dec 1983 on cover] Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp. Zimny, A., Vanderduys, E., Kemp, J.E. & Zozaya, S.M. 2025. Scratching the surface of the Gulf Coastal Bioregion: Lerista munuwajarlu sp. nov. (Scincidae; Sphenomorphini), a new fossorial skink from the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa 5647 (6): 526–540 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Lerista… Google images

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