Comment | See also Ctenotus schomburgkii. HUTCHINSON & DONELLAN (1999) elevated Ctenotus uber orientalis to full species status. According to these authors, STORR’s type series of uber orientalis is composite, containing orientalis, olympicus, and septenarius.
Limb morphology: 5 digits, 5 toes (Singhal et al. 2018, Cogger 2014) |
References |
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