Species Lialis burtonis Gray, 1835

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Species Lialis burtonis Gray, 1835

Burton's Snake-lizard

Lialis burtonis Gray, J.E. 1835. Characters of a new genus of reptiles (Lialis) from N.S.W. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1834: 134-135 [1834 on title page] [134].
Type data:
Neotype AM R27914, original type locality NSW (as Nova Cambria Australi); neotype locality is Round Hill Fauna Reserve, between Lake Cargelligo and Mt Hope, NSW [32°58'S 146°10'E].
Subsequent designation references:
Kluge, A.G. 1974. A taxonomic revision of the lizard family Pygopodidae. Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 147: 1-221.
Lialis bicatenata Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians. pp. 51-57 in Gray, J.E. (ed.). The Zoological Miscellany. London : Treuttel, Würz & Co. [52].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1946.8.26.71, Port Essington, NT.
Lialis punctulata Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians. pp. 51-57 in Gray, J.E. (ed.). The Zoological Miscellany. London : Treuttel, Würz & Co. [52].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1946.8.30.89, Port Essington, NT.
Lialis leptorhyncha Peters, W. 1873. Über eine neue Schildkrötenart, Cinosternon effeldtii und einige andere neue oder weniger bekannte Amphibien. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1873: 603-618 [1874 on title page] [605].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB (original description cites ZMB 5947, Kluge, A.G. 1974. A taxonomic revision of the lizard family Pygopodidae. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. 147: 1–221 cites ZMB 5948), Port Mackay, QLD.
Lialis punctulata concolor Peters, W. 1873. Über eine neue Schildkrötenart, Cinosternon effeldtii und einige andere neue oder weniger bekannte Amphibien. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1873: 603-618 [1874 on title page] [606].
Type data:

Syntype(s) ZMB 5135 (not found), Sydney, NSW or Perth, WA; ZMB 5323, Clarence River, NSW; whereabouts unknown two syntypes (not found), Sydney, NSW or Perth, WA.

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. [106]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Extra-limital in New Guinea

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, desert, hummock grassland, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low shrubland, low woodland, noctidiurnal, open forest, open heath, open scrub, oviparous, tall forest, tall open shrubland, tall shrubland, tussock grassland.