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Ctenotus dux (Desert Ctenotus; Fine Side-lined Ctenotus)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.1 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [3]  2.362 inches (6 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Central Ranges xeric scrub Australia Australasia Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Gibson desert Australia Australasia Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Great Sandy-Tanami desert Australia Australasia Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Great Victoria desert Australia Australasia Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Western Australian Mulga shrublands Australia Australasia Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park II 332429 Northern Territory, Australia

Ecosystems

Predators

Varanus eremius (Rusty Desert Monitor)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Kreisiella chrysocampa <Unverified Name>[5]
Physalopteroides filicauda <Unverified Name>[5]
Wanaristrongylus ctenoti <Unverified Name>[5]
Wanaristrongylus papangawurpae <Unverified Name>[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Comparative ecology of Varanus in the Great Victoria Desert, Eric R. Pianka, Australian Journal of Ecology (1994) 19, 395-408
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0