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Carinascincus ocellatus (GRAY, 1845)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Ocellated Cool-skink, Ocellated Skink
G: Gefleckter Skink 
SynonymMocoa ocellata GRAY 1845: 82 (part.)
Lygosoma hieroglyphicum DUMÉRIL & DUMÉRIL 1851: 166
Leiolopisma ocellatum — GREER 1974
Leiolopisma ocellatum — GREER 1982
Carinascincus ocellatum — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 24
Pseudemoia ocellata — FRANK & RAMUS 1995
Niveoscincus ocellatus — HUTCHINSON et al. 1990
Niveoscincus ocellatus — MELVILLE & SWAIN 2000
Niveoscincus ocellata — COGGER 2000: 566
Carinascincus ocellatus — GREER 2005 (online)
Carinascincus ocellatus — COUPER et al. 2006: 380
Niveoscincus ocellatus — WILSON & SWAN 2013
Carinascincus ocellatus — COGGER 2014: 428 
DistributionAustralia (Tasmania)

Type locality: Australia [lectotype]  
Reproductionovoviviparous (placentotrophic); shows temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD, Gruber et al. 2017). C. ocellatus is the only known reptile that is polymorphic for sex determination system: in a highland population, sex is determined genetically, whereas in a lowland population, offspring sex ratio is influenced by temperature (Hill et al. 2018). 
TypesLectotype: BMNH 1946.8.10.83, from Australia., designated by Rawlinson, in preparation (fide COGGER 1983). Of the paralectotypes, BMNH 1946.8.16.44-46 are referable to this species, but for BMNH 1946.8.10.78 see Leiolopisma metallicum (O’ Shaughnessy, 1874).
Syntypes: MNHP 3012 (3 specimens), from Hobart, Tasmania [Lygosoma hieroglyphicum]. 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 402 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentHabitat: Saxicolous, boulder fields in wet heathlands, rocky slopes in sclerophyll woodlands, elevation 40-1000 m. 
EtymologyPresumably named after the Latin ocellus (little eye) plus -atus (possession of), referring to the spotted coloration. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024) 
References
  • Baehr, M. 1976. Beiträge zur Verbreitung und Ökologie tasmanischer Reptilien. Stuttgarter Beitr. Naturk. (A) 292: 1-24 - 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
  • Duméril, A.M.C. & A. H. A. Duméril 1851. Catalogue méthodique de la collection des reptiles du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Gide et Baudry/Roret, Paris, 224 pp.
  • Gomard, Guillaume 2015. Tigerottern: eine Einladung zum Kennenlernen der Reptilien Tasmaniens. Terraria-Elaphe 2015 (4): 44-51 - get paper here
  • Gray, J. E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman, London: xxvii + 289 pp. - get paper here
  • Greer, Allen E. 1982. A new species of Leiolopisma (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Western Australia. Rec. Austral. Mus. 34 (12): 549-573 - get paper here
  • Gruber, J., Cunningham, G. D., While, G. M. and Wapstra, E. 2017. Disentangling sex allocation in a viviparous reptile with temperature-dependent sex determination: a multifactorial approach. J. Evol. Biol.. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1111/jeb.13219 - get paper here
  • Hill, P., Shams, F., Burridge, C. P., Wapstra, E., & Ezaz, T. 2021. Differences in Homomorphic Sex Chromosomes Are Associated with Population Divergence in Sex Determination in Carinascincus ocellatus (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Cells, 10(2), 291 - get paper here
  • Hill, Peta L; Christopher P Burridge, Tariq Ezaz, Erik Wapstra 2018. Conservation of Sex-Linked Markers among Conspecific Populations of a Viviparous Skink, Niveoscincus ocellatus, Exhibiting Genetic and Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination. Genome Biology and Evolution 10 (4): 1079–1087 [preprint published in bioRxiv] - get paper here
  • HILL, PETA; WHILE, GEOFFREY M., BURRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER P., EZAZ, TARIQ, MUNCH, KIRKE L., MCVARISH, MARY, & WAPSTRA, ERIK. 2022. Supplementary material from ‘Sex reversal explains some, but not all, climate mediated sex ratio variation within a viviparous reptile’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 1–8. - 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.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
  • Kreger, KM, Shaban, B, Wapstra, E, Burridge, CP. 2020. Phylogeographic parallelism: Concordant patterns in closely related species illuminate underlying mechanisms in the historically glaciated Tasmanian landscape. J Biogeogr. 2020; 47: 1674–1686 - get paper here
  • Leal, Francisca and Martha Patricia Ramírez-Pinilla 2010. Evolution and development of the extraembryonic membranes in lizards: Heterochronies and placentotrophy. Herp. Cons. Biol. 5 (2) - 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. 1974. Biogeography and ecology of the reptiles of Tasmania and the Bass Strait area. In: Williams, W. D. (ed.) Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania,Chapt. 11. The Hague: Junk, pp. 291-338 - get paper here
  • Whiteley, S. L., Weisbecker, V., Georges, A., Gauthier, A. R. G., Whitehead, D. L., & Holleley, C. E. 2018. Developmental asynchrony and antagonism of sex determination pathways in a lizard with temperature-induced sex reversal. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 14892 - get paper here
  • Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
  • Wu, Q., Fong, C.K., Thompson, M.B. and Murphy, C.R. 2014. Changes to the uterine epithelium during the reproductive cycle of two viviparous lizard species (Niveoscincus spp.). Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 96: 497–509, DOI: 10.1111/azo.12096 - get paper here
 
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