Species Morethia boulengeri (Ogilby, 1890)
Boulenger's Snake-eyed Skink, South-eastern Morethia Skink
- Ablepharus boulengeri Ogilby, J.D. 1890. Re-description of an Ablepharus from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 1: 10 [10].
Type data:
Lectotype AM R690, Brawlin, NSW. - Morethia petros 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] [36].
Type data:
Holotype AM R44666, 2 miles SW Glendale, 27 miles NNW Uralla, NSW [30°20'S 151°15'E].
Generic Combinations
- Morethia boulengeri (Ogilby, 1890).
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM)
Ecological Descriptors
Desert, diurnal, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low shrubland, low woodland, open forest, open scrub, oviparous, terrestrial, woodland.
General References
Crome, B. 1981. The diet of some ground-layer lizards in three woodlands of the New England Tableland of Australia. Herpetofauna 13: 4-11
Greer, A.E. 1980. A new species of Morethia (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from northern Australia, with comments on the biology and relationships of the genus. Records of the Australian Museum 33: 89-122 (taxonomy)
Rawlinson, P.A. 1976. The endemic Australian lizard genus Morethia (Scincidae: Lygosominae) in southern Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 37: 27-41 (taxonomy)
Smyth, M. 1972. The genus Morethia (Lacertilia: Scincidae) in South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 16: 1-14 (taxonomy)
Smyth, M. 1974. Changes in the fat stores of the skinks Morethia boulengeri and Hemiergis peronii (Lacertilia). Australian Journal of Zoology 22: 135-145
Smyth, M. & Smith, M.J. 1974. Aspects of the natural history of three Australian skinks, Morethia boulengeri, Menetia greyii and Lerista bougainvillii. Journal of Herpetology 8: 329-336
Storr, G.M. 1972. The genus Morethia (Lacertilia: Scincidae) in Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 55: 73-79 (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. [35] (South-eastern Morethia Skink)
History of changes
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