Species Ctenotus taeniolatus (White, 1790)

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• Lacerta taeniolata White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, with sixty five plates of non-descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions. Appendix. London : Debrett 299 pp. [245, pl. 32 fig. 1] [ex Shaw ms to whom authorship of this species has also been ascribed, e.g. Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 289 pp.].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH xv.16a (presumed lost), NSW.

  Secondary source:

   Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 289 pp.
• Scincus octolineatus Daudin, F.M. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière des Reptiles. Paris : Dufart Vol. 4 397 pp. [285] [unnecessary replacement name for Lacerta taeniolata White, 1790].
• Scincus decemlineatus Lacépède, B.G.E. 1804. Mémoire sur plusieurs animaux de la Nouvelle-Hollande dont la description n'a pas encore été publiée. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 4: 184-211 pls 55-58 [208].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP (not found), Australia.
• Scincus undecimstriatus Kuhl, H. 1820. Beiträge zur Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie. Frankfurt. 130 pp. [129].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RMNH 2479, Kangaroo Is., SA (original description cites Australia, see also Ctenotus taeniolatus (White, 1790))
  Comment: remaining syntypes not found, but unpublished Kuhl figure of S. undecimstriatus indicates that at least one syntyupe was Ctenotus taeniolatus.
• Scincus multilineatus Lesson, R.P. 1829. Description de quelques reptiles nouveaux ou peu connus. pp. 34-65 in Duperrey, L.I. (ed.). (1826–1838) Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, Pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie 2(1) and Atlas (Reptiles 7 pls). Paris : Arthus Bertrand. [published over the period 1826-1838, Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Notes on the dates of publication of the natural history portions of some French voyages. Part 1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 7: 388–392 established date of the text as 1831] [livr. 11, pl. 3 fig.] [Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Notes on the dates of publication of the natural history portions of some French voyages. Part 1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 7: 388–392 (date of livraison); Anon. (Férussac, ed.) 1829. [Review of] Voyage autour du monde. Livraison 11. Bull. Sci. Nat. Géol. 17: 267 [2] (identifies livraison in which plate appears); Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1906. Notes on the dates of publication of the natural history portions of some French voyages. 'Voyage autour du Monde .... sur .... la Coquille pendant .... 1822-25 .... Par L.J. Duperrey,' etc. A correction. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 17: 335–336 [4] (date of text)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 2983 2 specimens (only one specimen, the figured specimen, has been found, see Roux-Estève, R. 1979. Liste des Amphibiens et Reptiles des collections du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, récoltés par Lesueur (1778–1846). Bull. Trim. Soc. Géol. Normandie et Amis Muséum du Havre 66: 25–29), Australia, NSW and Bourou and Ambon Ils, Indonesia.

  Secondary source:

   Anon. (Férussac, ed.) 1829. [Review of] Voyage autour du monde. Livraison 11. Bulletin des Sciences Naturelles et de Géologie 17: 267; Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Notes on the dates of publication of the natural history portions of some French voyages.—Part I. 'Amérique méridionale'; 'Indes orientales': 'Pôle Sud' ('Astrolabe' and 'Zélée'); 'La Bonite'; 'La Coquille'; and 'L'Uranie et Physicienne'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 7: 388-392; Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1906. Notes on the dates of publication of the natural history portions of some French voyages.—'Voyage autour du Monde .... sur .... la Coquille pendant .... 1822–25 .... Par L.J. Duperry', &c.—A correction. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 17: 335-336.
• Ctenotus miowera 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] [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM R65485, Miowera, between Proserpine and Bowen, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Shea, G.M. & Sadlier, R.A. 1999. A catalogue of the non-fossil amphibian and reptile type specimens in the collection of the Australian Museum: types currently, previously and purportedly present. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 15: 1-91 [60].

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. [154]

Generic Combinations

• Ctenotus taeniolatus (White, 1790).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, open forest, open scrub, oviparous, saxicoline.

General References

Greer, A.E. 1980. Critical thermal maximum temperatures in Australian scincid lizards: their ecological and evolutionary significance. Australian Journal of Zoology 28: 91-102

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

Swanson, S. 1976. Lizards of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 80 pp. (natural history)

Common Name References

CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Copper-tailed Skink)

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