Species Cryptoblepharus exochus Horner, 2007

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cryptoblepharus exochus Horner, P. 2007. Systematics of the snake-eyed skinks, Cryptoblepharus Wiegmann (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) – an Australian-based review. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory Supplement 3: 21-198 [71].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM R18669 (Tissue sample No. ABTC BR7) adult male, Mosquito Flat, Bradshaw Field Training Area, Northern Territory [15°23’22”S 130°08’41”E].
  Paratype(s) 28 specimens (in NTM and WAM), all N NT.

  Type locality references:

  Horner, P. 2007. Systematics of the snake-eyed skinks, Cryptoblepharus Wiegmann (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) – an Australian-based review. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory Supplement 3: 21-198 [71].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

The border region of far north-western Northern Territory and far north-eastern Western Australia 'Within this region it has been recorded from two sites, Mosquito Flat on the eastern bank of the Victoria River in the Bradshaw Field Training Area (formerly Bradshaw Station), and Spirit Hills Station which abuts the Western Australian border', see Horner (2007)

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal.

 

Common Name References

Horner, P. 2007. Systematics of the snake-eyed skinks, Cryptoblepharus Wiegmann (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) – an Australian-based review. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory Supplement 3: 21-198 (Noble Snake-eyed Skink)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024		16-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)