Genus Bellatorias Wells & Wellington, 1984

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• Bellatorias Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1984. A synopsis of the class Reptilia in Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology 1(3-4): 73-129 [1983 on title page] [87].

  Type species:

   Tropidolepisma major Gray, 1845 by original designation (Type species Tropidolepisma major Gray, 1845 by original designation.).
• Hortonia Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology Supplementary Series 1: 1-61 [Date published September, 1985] [30].

  Type species:

   Hortonia obiri Wells & Wellington, 1985 by original designation.

Introduction

Re-instated as a valid genus, following molecular phylogenetic analysis of Egernia (Gardner et al. 2008).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT: Arnhem Plateau (ARP)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Gardner, M.G., Hugall, A.F., Donnellan, S.C., Hutchinson, M.N. & Foster, R. 2008. Molecular systematics of social skinks: phylogeny and taxonomy of the Egernia group (Reptilia: Scincidae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 154: 781-794

History of changes