Species Bellatorias major (Gray, 1845)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tropidolepisma major Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 289 pp. [107].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH xv.88a, Australia, but restricted to E Australia (Sydney and Rockhampton) by.

  Type locality references:

  Günther, A. 1875. Reptiles. A list of saurians of Australia and New Zealand. In, Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror. Vol. 2. London : E.W. Janson.
• Tropidolepisma majus Günther, A. 1875. Reptiles. A list of saurians of Australia and New Zealand. In, Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror. Vol. 2. London : E.W. Janson. [15, pl. 14] [error? or ?nom. nov. for Tropidolepisma major Gray, 1845].
• Egernia bungana De Vis, C.W. 1888. A contribution to the herpetology of Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2: 811-826 [814].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM (not found), S Queensland.

 

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. [158]

 

Generic Combinations

• Bellatorias major (Gray, 1845). —
  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 [791]
• Egernia major (Gray, 1845).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, diurnal, tall forest.

Extra Ecological Information

Viviparous.

 

General References

Johnson, C.R. 1977. Thermoregulation in four Australian lizards of the genus Egernia (Sauria: Scincidae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 60: 381-390 (as Egernia bungana)

Longley, G. 1946. The giant skink (Egernia major) in the vivarium. Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 1945–46: 33-34 (natural history)

Mitchell, F.J. 1950. The scincid genera Egernia and Tiliqua (Lacertilia). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9: 275-308 (taxonomy)

 

Common Name References

CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Land Mullet)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024		15-Jan-2013	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)