Carinascincus coventryi (RAWLINSON, 1975)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Southern Forest Cool-skink
Synonym	Leiolopisma coventryi RAWLINSON 1975: 2 Litotescincus coventryi — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 33 Pseudemoia coventryi — FRANK & RAMUS 1995 Niveoscincus coventryi — HUTCHINSON et al. 1990 Niveoscincus coventryi — MELVILLE & SWAIN 2000 Niveoscincus coventryi — COGGER 2000: 561 Harrisoniascincus coventryi — GREER 2005 (online) Carinascincus coventryi — COUPER et al. 2006: 380 Niveoscincus coventryi — WILSON & SWAN 2013 Carinascincus coventryi — COGGER 2014: 426
Distribution	Australia (SE New South Wales, Victoria) Type locality: 2 km N of Mt. St. Leonard, in 37° 33’ S, 145° 32’ E, Vic.
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: NMV D40080
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Comment	Habitat: Ground, wet sclerophyll forest, 900 m elevation. Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species.
Etymology	Named for Albert John Coventry (1936-2007), Officer-in-Charge of the herpetology collection at the Museum of Victoria and close friend of the author. (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 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. 1982. A new species of Leiolopisma (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Western Australia. Rec. Austral. Mus. 34 (12): 549-573 - get paper here Hutchinson M N; Donnellan S C; Baverstock P R; Krieg M; Simms S; Burgin S 1990. Immunological relationships and generic revision of the Australian lizards assigned to the genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Australian Journal of Zoology 38 (5): 535-554 - get paper here Hutchinson, M.N. 1979. The reptiles of Kinglake National Park. Victorian Naturalist 96: 124-134 - get paper here Hutchinson,M.D. & Schwaner,T.D. 1991. Genetic relationships among the Tasmanian scincid lizards of the genus Niveoscincus. Journal of Herpetology 25 (1): 49-58 - get paper here Melville, Jane; Swain, Roy 2000. Evolutionary relationships between morphology, performance and habitat openness in the lizard genus Niveoscincus (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70: 667–683. - get paper here Melville,J. & SWAIN,R. 2000. Mitochondrial DNA-sequence based phylogeny and biogeography of the snow skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Niveoscincus) of Tasmania. Herpetologica 56 (2): 196-208 - get paper here Rawlinson,P.A. 1975. Two new lizard species from the genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae: Lygosominae) in south-eastern Australia and Tasmania. Mem. Natl. Mus. Victoria 36: 1-16 - get paper here Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp. Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here 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.museum.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics/lizards/images/ncovlive1.htm http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics/lizards/images/ncovlive2.htm http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Niveoscincus… Google images

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