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Lerista viduata STORR, 1991

IUCN Red List - Lerista viduata - Data Deficient, DD
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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Ravensthorpe Range Slider 
SynonymLerista viduata STORR 1991
Lerista viduata — COGGER 2000: 763
Nodorha viduata — WELLS 2012: 96
Lerista viduata — WILSON & SWAN 2010 
DistributionAustralia (Western Australia)

Type locality: Ravensthorpe Range, WA [33°33'S 119°06'E].  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: WAM 96771. 
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CommentAbundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyFrom the Latin vidua (a widow), plus the suffix -atus (pertaining to), in reference to the dark color. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024) 
References
  • Bonifacio Luke R., Farquhar Jules E., Pili Arman N., Walsh Jessica C., Chapple David G. 2024. A noodle in a haystack: determining the conservation status of the rare and Data Deficient Ravensthorpe Range slider, Lerista viduata. Pacific Conservation Biology 30, PC24048 - get paper here
  • Bonifacio, L. R., Farquhar, J. E., Chapple, D. G., & Walsh, J. C. 2026. Raising practitioner awareness to improve conservation of Data Deficient species: Evidence from before-and-after interviews. Biological Conservation, 318, 111845 - 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Storr G M. 1991. Revision of Lerista microtis (Lacertilia: Scincidae). Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 51 (2): 469-478 - get paper here
  • 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.
 
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