Lerista aericeps STORR, 1986
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Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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Common Names | E: Desert Plain Slider |
Synonym | Lerista aericeps STORR 1986 Lerista aericeps — COGGER 2000: 512 Miculia aericeps — WELLS 2012: 53 |
Distribution | Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland) Type locality: 25 km S Alice Springs, Northern Territory |
Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: NTM R34506 (formerly CAWC [Central Australian Wildlife Collection] R1568, incorrectly cited as R1565 by Storr, 1986), 25km S of Alice Springs, NT, collected by A. Kerle, 5.xi.1985 (see Horner, 1999); paratypes: WAM |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A small slender Lerista with four fingers, four toes and immovable eyelid (a large transparent disc), distinguishable from L. separanda and L. xanthura by its coppery head, faintly spotted back and tail, and single preocular (rather than two). Further distinguishable from L. separanda by its yellow (rather than red) tail and five (rather than four) supraciliaries. Distinguishable from L. aericeps taeniata by lack of dark upper lateral stripe. |
Comment | Limb morphology: 4 digits, 4 toes |
Etymology | From Latin aes (copper) and ceps (head). |
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