Species Carinascincus ocellatus (Gray, 1845)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mocoa ocellata Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 289 pp. [82].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1946.8.10.83 (of the syntypes BMNH 1946.8.16.44-46 are referrable to this species, but for BMNH 1946.8.10.78 see Leiolopisma metallicum (O'Shaughnessy, 1874)), Australia.
• Lygosoma hieroglyphicum Duméril, A.M.C. & Duméril, A. 1851. Catalogue Méthodique de la Collection des Reptiles. Paris : Mus. Hist. Nat. iv 224 pp. [166] [see also (pl. 5 fig. 1) in Jacquinot, J. & Guichenot, M.A. 1853. Reptiles et Poissons. In, Dumont d'Urville, M.J. (ed). Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Astrolabe et la Zélée, éxecuté pendant les années 1837–40. Zoologie 3 1–28. Paris : Gide et Baudry].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 3012 3 specimens, Hobart, TAS.

  Secondary source:

   Jacquinot, J. & Guichenot, M.A. 1853. Reptiles et Poissons. In, Dumont d'Urville, M.J. (ed.). Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Astrolabe et la Zélée, éxecuté pendant les années 1837–40. Zoologie. Paris : Gide et Baudry Vol. 3 28 pp.

 

Generic Combinations

• Leiolopisma ocellatum (Gray, 1845). —
  Greer, A.E. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 31: 1-67 [16]
• Carinascincus ocellatum (Gray, 1845). —
  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] [24]
• Niveoscincus ocellatus (Gray, 1845). —
  Hutchinson, M.N., Donnellan, S.C., Baverstock, P.R., Krieg, M., Simms, S. & Burgin, S. 1990. Immunological relationships and generic revision of the Australian lizards assigned to the genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Australian Journal of Zoology 38: 535-554 [544]

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, diurnal, open forest, tall forest, terrestrial, viviparous.

 

General References

Baehr, M. 1976. Beiträge zur Verbreitung und Ökologie Tasmanischer Reptilien. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) 292: 1-24 (natural history)

Rawlinson, P.A. 1974. Biogeography and ecology of the reptiles of Tasmania and the Bass Strait area. Chapt. 11. pp. 291-338 in Williams, W.D. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania. The Hague : Junk 498 pp. (biogeography)

 

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. [35] (Ocellated Skink)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	SCINCIDAE	02-Nov-2017	MODIFIED
07-Feb-2024		22-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)