Species Ctenotus inornatus (Gray, 1845)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hinulia inornata Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 289 pp. [78].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1946.8.15.45, Swan River, WA (in error, see Storr (1970)).

  Type locality references:

  Storr, G.M. 1970. The genus Ctenotus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) in the Northern Territory. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 52: 97-108 [1969 on title page].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rabosky, D.L., Hutchinson, M.N., Donnellan, C.C., Talaba, A.L. & Lovette, I.J. 2014. Phylogenetic disassembly of species boundaries in a widespread group of Australian skinks (Scincidae: Ctenotus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 77: 71–82 [79]

 

Generic Combinations

• Ctenotus inornatus (Gray, 1845). —
  Storr, G.M. 1975. The genus Ctenotus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) in the Kimberley and North-west Divisions of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 3: 209-243 [221] (changed combination cited)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, low open woodland, open forest, oviparous, tall open shrubland.

 

General References

Rankin, P.R. & Gillam, M.W. 1979. A new lizard in the genus Ctenotus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from the Northern Territory with notes on its biology. Records of the Australian Museum 32: 501-511 (taxonomy)

Storr, G.M. 1970. The genus Ctenotus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) in the Northern Territory. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 52: 97-108 [1969 on title page] (taxonomy)

Storr, G.M. 1978. Notes on the Ctenotus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) of Queensland. Records of the Western Australian Museum 6: 319-332 (taxonomy)

Storr, G.M., Smith, L.A. & Johnstone, R.E. 1981. Lizards of Western Australia. I. Skinks. Perth : University of Western Australia Press and Western Australian Museum 200 pp. (taxonomy)

 

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. [26] (Bar-shouldered Ctenotus)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	LACERTILIA	22-Nov-2022	MODIFIED
07-Feb-2024		21-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)