Species Tiliqua multifasciata Sternfeld, 1919

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tiliqua occipitalis multifasciata Sternfeld, R. 1919. Neue Schlangen und Echsen aus Zentralaustralien. Senckenbergiana Biologica 1: 76-83 [79].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SMF 14037, Hermannsburg Mission, Upper Finke River, NT.
• Tiliqua occipitalis nossiteri Glauert, L. 1923. Contributions to the fauna of Western Australia. 3. Annotated list of lizards from Wallal. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 9: 57-60 [59].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) WAM R1013 (remaining three syntypes not cited by number in original description), Wallal, WA.
• Tiliqua occipitalis auriculare Kinghorn, J.R. 1931. Herpetological Notes. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 85-91 [88].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM R10080, Broome, 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. [190]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Desert, diurnal, hummock grassland, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low shrubland, low woodland, omnivore, terrestrial, tussock grassland, viviparous, woodland.

 

General References

Barnett, B. 1977. Additional notes on new-born centralian bluetongues, Tiliqua multifasciata. Victorian Herpetological Society Newsletter 1: 10

Christian, T. 1977. Notes on centralian bluetongues (Tiliqua multifasciata). Victorian Herpetological Society Newsletter 1: 8-9 (natural history)

Mitchell, F.J. 1950. The scincid genera Egernia and Tiliqua (Lacertilia). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9: 275-308 (taxonomy)

Pianka, E.R. 1972. Zoogeography and speciation of Australian desert lizards: an ecological perspective. Copeia 1972: 127-144 (ecology)

Shea, G.M. & Peterson, M. 1981. Observations on sympatry of the social lizards Tiliqua multifasciata Sternfeld and T. occipitalis (Peters). Australian Journal of Herpetology 1: 27-28

Storr, G.M., Smith, L.A. & Johnstone, R.E. 1981. Lizards of Western Australia. I. Skinks. Perth : University of Western Australia Press and Western Australian Museum 200 pp. (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. [36] (Centralian Blue-tongue)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024		16-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)