Species Suppressascincus pluto (Ingram, 1977)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anomalopus pluto Ingram, G.J. 1977. A new species of legless skink Anomalopus pluto from Cape York, Queensland. Victorian Naturalist 94: 52-53 [52, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM J26261, McDonald Crossing, Cockatoo Creek, 115 km S of Bamaga, Cape York, QLD [11°33'S 142°26'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Sepsiscus pluto (Ingram, 1977). —
  Hutchinson, M.N., Couper, P., Amey, A. & Wilmer, J.W. 2021. Diversity and Systematics of Limbless Skinks (Anomalopus) from Eastern Australia and the Skeletal Changes that Accompany the Substrate Swimming Body Form. Journal of Herpetology 55(No.4): 361-384 [374]
• Suppressascincus pluto (Ingram, 1977). —
  Wells, R.W., & Wellington, C.R. 1988. Amphibians and reptiles of the Upper Cox’s River area, Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia, with comments on Greer & Cogger’s recent reclassification of the genus Anomalopus (sensu lato). Australian Herpetologist 505: 1-15 (Publication not sighted, not found)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, fossorial, open heath, oviparous.

 

Common Name References

Clayton, M., Wombey, J.C., Mason, I.J., Chesser, R.T. & Wells, A. 2006. CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing iv 162 pp. [23] (Cape York Worm-skink)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	SQUAMATA	26-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
07-Feb-2024	LACERTILIA	18-Nov-2022	MODIFIED
07-Feb-2024		16-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)