Species Aprasia pulchella Gray, 1839

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• Aprasia pulchella Gray, J.E. 1839. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. (contd.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2(11): 331-337 [1839 on title page] [332].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1946.8.30.93, Australia, restriction to Kalamunda National Park, 13 mi[les] E of Perth, WA, proposed by Kluge (1974).

  Type locality 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.
• Ophioseps nasutus Bocage, J.V.B. 1873. Mélanges erpétologiques. III. Sur quelques sauriens nouveaux de la Nouvelle Calédonie et de l'Australie. Jornal de Sciences Naturais, Lisboa 14: 228-232 [232].

  Type data:

   Holotype MBL T73–439, Australia.
• Aprasia brevirostris Werner, F. 1909. Reptilia (Geckonidae und Scincidae). pp. 251-278 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 2. [266, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 24596 2 specimens, destroyed (types destroyed, see Hellermann (2020)), Mt Helena (as Lion Mill) and Donnybrook, 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. [102]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

Fossorial, nocturnal, open forest, oviparous, tall forest.

 

General References

Hellermann, J. 2020. An annotated list of reptiles and amphibians from the 1905 Hamburg expedition to southwest Australia deposited in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Evolutionary Systematics 4: 61-70 [62]

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

MacDonald, A.J., Knopp, T., Pepper, M., Keogh, J.S. & Sarre, S.D. 2015. The first complete mitochondrial genome of Pygopodidae (Aprasia parapulchella Kluge). Australian Journal of Zoology 63: 111–114

Parker, H.W. 1956. The lizard genus Aprasia, its taxonomy and temperature correlated variation. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 3: 365-385 (taxonomy)

 

Common Name References

CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Pretty Worm-lizard)

 

History of changes

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07-Feb-2024		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
07-Feb-2024		16-Dec-2011	MOVED
07-Feb-2024		07-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
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