Lerista baynesi STORR, 1971
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Lerista baynesi
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Bayne's Slider |
| Synonym | Lerista picturata baynesi STORR 1971 Lerista picturata — COGGER 1983: 176 Lerista baynesi — STORR 1991 Lerista picturata baynesi — COGGER 2000: 528 Aphroditia baynesi — WELLS 2012: 167 Lerista baynesi — WILSON & SWAN 2010 |
| Distribution | Australia (SE Western Australia and SW South Australia) Type locality: Eucla, 31° 43’ S, 128° 5YE, W. A. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: WAM R24609 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A large Lerista with one finger (terminating in wide flat scale), two toes, movable eyelid, two supraoculars and very weak to moderately strong pattern (four dark dorsal lines or rows of spots present or absent, and upper lateral stripe narrow and either solid, hollow or diffuse). Further differing from L. picturata in its shorter appendages, fewer subdigital lamellae, more greyish upper surface and whitish rather than yellow lower surface; it is also slightly smaller and more elongate. (Storr 1991) Description: Snout-vent length (mm): 36-91 (N 121, mean 69.7). Length of appendages etc. (% SVL): foreleg 0.5-1.5 (N 74, mean 1.0), hindleg 9.5-13.5 (N 71, mean 11.7), tail 70-98 (N 51, mean 82.0), snout to foreleg 20-27 (N 70, mean 23.9). Nasals in contact (N 53) or very narrowly separated (1). Prefrontals widely separated. Frontoparietals separated, much smaller than interparietal (N 52). Nuchals 1-6 (N 51, mean 3.8). Supraoculars two, first in contact with frontal (N 53). Supraoculars two, first in contact with frontal (N 53). Supraciliaries three with first much the largest (N 42), two with first much the largest (2) or four with first and third largest (7). Upper labials 6 (N 55). Midbody scale rows 18 (N 4), 20 (40),21 (1) or 22 (1). Lamellae under longer toe 7-10 (N 53, mean 8.8). (Storr 1991) Coloration: Upper surface pale greyish brown to pale brownish grey, marked with reddish brown, dark brown or blackish brown: four rows of dots or short dashes on back, occasionally coalescing into lines, often faint or absent; upper lateral stripe from lore to tail, at best solid, ragged-edged and about a scale wide on body, at worst hollow or very diffuse. (Storr 1991) |
| Comment | Limb morphology: 0 digits, 2 toes |
| Etymology | Named after Dr. Alexander Baynes (b. 1944), an Australian mammalogist and former Curator of Palaeontology, Western Australian Museum. |
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