Species Tiliqua occipitalis (Peters, 1863)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyclodus occipitalis Peters, W. 1863. Übersicht der von Hrn. Richard Schomburgk an das zoologische Museum eingesandten Amphibien, aus Buchsfelde bei Adelaide in Südaustralien. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1863: 228-236 [1864 on title page] [231].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 4709, Loos, 4.5 km W Gawler (as Buchsfelde), SA.

  Type locality references:

  Praite, R. & Tolley, J.C. 1970. Place names of South Australia. Adelaide : Rigby 203 pp.
• Cyclodus fasciatus Lütken, C. 1863. Nogle nye krybdyr og padder. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 1862: 292-331 [1862 on title page] [292, pl. 1 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype UZM R47563, Australia.

 

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. [191]

 

Generic Combinations

• Tiliqua occipitalis (Peters, 1863).

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Desert, diurnal, low open shrubland, low shrubland, omnivore, open heath, open scrub, tall shrubland, terrestrial, viviparous, woodland.

 

General References

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. [37] (Western Blue-tongue)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024		22-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)