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Ctenotus helenae (Helena's Ctenotus; Clay-soil Ctenotus)

Synonyms: Lygosoma lesueurii concolor

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  12 grams
Litter Size [2]  3
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.543 inches (9 cm)

Ecoregions

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 gouldii (Sand Monitor, Gould's Goanna)[4]
Varanus tristis orientalis (Black-tailed Monitor, Black-headed Monitor)[4]

Consumers

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

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Symparty of Desert Lizards (Ctenotus) in Western Australia, Eric R. Pianka, Ecology 50: 1012-1030. (1969)
♦ 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