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Species Tiliqua rugosa (Gray, 1825)

Bobtail, Boggi, Pinecone Lizard, Shingle-back, Sleepy Lizard, Stumpy-tail

Generic Combinations

  • Tiliqua rugosa (Gray, 1825).

 

Distribution

States

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


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Desert, diurnal, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low shrubland, low woodland, omnivore, open forest, open heath, open scrub, terrestrial, tussock grassland, viviparous, woodland.

 

General References

Bentley, P.J. 1959. Studies on the water and electrolyte metabolism of the lizard Trachysaurus rugosus (Gray). Journal of Physiology 145: 37-47

Bourne, A.R. 1981. Progesterone-like activity in the plasma of the viviparous skink Trachydosaurus rugosus (stump-tailed lizard). pp. 14-16 in Banks, C.B. & Martin, A.A. (eds). Proceedings of the Melbourne Herpetological Symposium, 1980. Melbourne : Zoological Board of Victoria pp. 44-54.

Bourne, A.R. & Seamark, R.F. 1978. Seasonal variation in steroid biosynthesis by the testis of the lizard Tiliqua rugosa. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 59B: 363-367

Braysher, M.L. 1971. The structure and function of the nasal salt gland from the sleepy lizard Trachydosaurus (formerly Tiliqua) rugosus: family Scincidae. Physiological Zoology 44: 129-136

Bull, C.M. & Satrawaha, R. 1981. Dispersal and social organisation in Trachydosaurus rugosus. 24 in Banks, C.B. & Martin, A.A. (eds). Proceedings of the Melbourne Herpetological Symposium, 1980. Melbourne : Zoological Board of Victoria pp. 44-54.

Burnstock, G. & Wood, M. 1967. Innervation of the urinary bladder of the sleepy lizard (Trachysaurus rugosus). II. Physiology and pharmacology. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 20: 675-690

Firth, B.T., Kennaway, D.J. & Rozenbilds, M.A.M. 1979. Plasma melatonin in the scincid lizard, Trachydosaurus rugosus: diel rhythm, seasonality and the effect of constant darkenss. General and Comparative Endocrinology 37: 493-500

Kirby, S. & Burnstock, G. 1969. Pharmacological studies of the cardiovascular system in the anaesthetized sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa) and toad (Bufo marinus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 28: 321-331

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

Saint Girons, H., Lemire, M. & Bradshaw, S.D. 1977. Structure de la glande nasale externe de Tiliqua rugosa (Reptilia: Scincidae) et rapports avec sa fonction. Zoomorphology (Berlin) 88: 277-288

Saint Girons, H. & Bradshaw, S.D. 1981. Donées histo-physiologiques sur l'hypophyse de Tiliqua rugosa (Reptilia: Scincidae) et notamment la signification fonctionelle des cellules gamma. Archives d'Anatomie Microscopique et de Morphologie Expérimentale 70: 129-140

Satrawaha, R. & Bull, C.M. 1981. The area occupied by an omnivorous lizard, Trachydosaurus rugosus. Australian Wildlife Research 8: 435-442

Simpson, D.A. 1949. The epiphyseal complex in Trachysaurus rugosus. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 73: 1-5

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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)