Species Aprasia pulchella Gray, 1839
Granite Worm-lizard, Pretty Worm-lizard, Western Granite Worm-lizard
- Aprasia pulchella Gray, J.E. 1839. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. (contd.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2(11): 331-337 [1839 on title page] [332].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1946.8.30.93, Australia, restriction to Kalamunda National Park, 13 mi[les] E of Perth, WA, proposed by Kluge (1974).Type locality references:
Kluge, A.G. 1974. A taxonomic revision of the lizard family Pygopodidae. Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 147: 1-221. - Ophioseps nasutus Bocage, J.V.B. 1873. Mélanges erpétologiques. III. Sur quelques sauriens nouveaux de la Nouvelle Calédonie et de l'Australie. Jornal de Sciences Naturais, Lisboa 14: 228-232 [232].
Type data:
Holotype MBL T73–439, Australia. - Aprasia brevirostris Werner, F. 1909. Reptilia (Geckonidae und Scincidae). pp. 251-278 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 2. [266, fig. 2].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMB 24596 2 specimens, destroyed (types destroyed, see Hellermann (2020)), Mt Helena (as Lion Mill) and Donnybrook, WA.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Cogger, H.G., in Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. 313 pp. in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [102]
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)
Ecological Descriptors
Fossorial, nocturnal, open forest, oviparous, tall forest.
General References
Hellermann, J. 2020. An annotated list of reptiles and amphibians from the 1905 Hamburg expedition to southwest Australia deposited in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Evolutionary Systematics 4: 61-70 [62]
Kluge, A.G. 1974. A taxonomic revision of the lizard family Pygopodidae. Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 147: 1-221
MacDonald, A.J., Knopp, T., Pepper, M., Keogh, J.S. & Sarre, S.D. 2015. The first complete mitochondrial genome of Pygopodidae (Aprasia parapulchella Kluge). Australian Journal of Zoology 63: 111–114
Parker, H.W. 1956. The lizard genus Aprasia, its taxonomy and temperature correlated variation. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 3: 365-385 (taxonomy)
Common Name References
CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Pretty Worm-lizard)
History of changes
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07-Feb-2024 | 30-Mar-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
07-Feb-2024 | 16-Dec-2011 | MOVED | ||
07-Feb-2024 | 07-Dec-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
08-Mar-2011 | 08-Mar-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |