Subspecies Tiliqua scincoides scincoides (White, 1790)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lacerta scincoides 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. [242, pl. 30 fig. 1] [ex Shaw ms].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1946.8.21.94, Australia.
• Scincus crotaphomelas 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].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Australia.
• Scincus tuberculatus Merrem, B. 1820. Versuch eines Systems Amphibien. Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum. Marburg : Krieger xv 199 pp. [73] [this name is here regarded as applying to a newly-described species. However Merrem's original description is ambiguous in that the name tuberculatus could be interpreted as a replacement name for Lacerta scincoides White, 1790].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Australia.
• Tiliqua whitii Gray, J.E. 1831. A synopsis of the species of the class Reptilia. pp. 1-110 in Griffith, E. (ed.). The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with its Organization by the Baron Cuvier. London : Whittaker, Treacher & Co. Vol. 9 481+110 pp. [1831 on title page] [67] [junior secondary homonym of Scincus whitii Lacépède, 1804; ?replacement name for Lacerta scincoides White, 1790].
• Cyclodus boddaertii Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1839. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Paris : Roret Vol. 5 viii 854 pp. [Date published Nov-1839] [752].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP 3025, Java; whereabouts unknown (not found), Australia.
• Cyclodus boddaertii Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1839. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Paris : Roret Vol. 5 viii 854 pp. [Date published Nov-1839] [752] [?replacement name for Lacerta scincoides White, 1790; for extralimital syntype (MNHP 3025, Java), see Guibé, J. 1954. Catalogue des Types de Lézards du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris : Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 119 pp.].

  Secondary source:

   Guibé, J. 1954. Catalogue des Types de Lézards du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris : Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 119 pp.
• Tiliqua scincoides chimaerea Shea, G.M. 2000. Die Shark-Bay-Tannenzapfenechse Tiliqua rugosa palarra subsp. nov [The Shark Bay bluetongue Tiliqua rugosa palarra subsp. nov.]. pp. 108-112 in Hauschild, A., Henle, K., Hitz, R., Shea, G.M. & Werning, H. (eds). Blauzungenskinke. Beitrage zu Tiliqua und Cyclodomorphus. [Bluetongued skinks. Contributions on Tiliqua and Cyclodomorphus]. Munster : Natur und Tier Verlag 287 pp.

Generic Combinations

• Tiliqua scincoides scincoides (White, 1790).

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low shrubland, low woodland, omnivore, open forest, open heath, open scrub, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, viviparous, woodland.

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