Species Pygopus lepidopodus (Lacépède, 1804)
Common Scaly-foot
- Bipes lepidopodus 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 [209, pl. 55 fig. 1].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP 7154, Australia. - Sheltopusik novaehollandiae Oppel, M. 1811. Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien, als prodrom einer Naturgeschichte Derselben. München : Lindauer xii 86 pp. [40].
Type data:
Status unknown, (not located), Australia. - Pygopus lepidopus Merrem, B. 1820. Versuch eines Systems Amphibien. Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum. Marburg : Krieger xv 199 pp. [77] [lapsus for Bipes lepidopodus Lacépède, 1804].
- Pygopus squamiceps Gray, J.E. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 289 pp. [68].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH xii.2a, Australia. - Pygopus longicaudatus Tepper, J.C.O. 1882. Notes on some South Australian lizards. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 5: 32-33 [32] [nom. oblit., see Kluge, A.G. 1974. A taxonomic revision of the lizard family Pygopodidae. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. 147: 1–221].
Type data:
Status unknown, near Kangarilla, SA.
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. [107]
Generic Combinations
- Pygopus lepidopodus (Lacépède, 1804).
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: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Low open shrubland, low open woodland, low shrubland, noctidiurnal, open forest, open heath, open scrub, oviparous.
Extra Ecological Information
Lacertiphagous.
General 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
May, E. 1978. Einige Beobactungen zum Verhalten von Pygopus lepidopodus (Reptilia: Sauria: Pygopodidae). Salamandra 14: 1-8 (natural history)
Wells, R. & Husband, G. 1979. Comments on the reproduction of Pygopus lepidopodus (Lacepede). Herpetofauna 11: 22-25
Common Name References
CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Common Scaly-foot)
History of changes
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| 07-Feb-2024 | 31-Jul-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 07-Feb-2024 | 16-Dec-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 07-Feb-2024 | 07-Dec-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 08-Mar-2011 | 08-Mar-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |