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Ctenotus pantherinus (Swift ctenotus; Leopard Ctenotus)

Synonyms: Egernia whitei carnarae; Lygosoma ocellatum; Lygosoma ocelliferum; Lygosoma pantherinum

Infraspecies

Ctenotus pantherinus acripes (Swift ctenotus)
Ctenotus pantherinus calx (Swift ctenotus)
Ctenotus pantherinus ocellifer (Swift ctenotus)
Ctenotus pantherinus pantherinus (Swift ctenotus)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  13.2 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1 grams
Female Weight [2]  11 grams
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial
Litter Size [4]  6
Litters / Year [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [2]  3 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.15 inches (8 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Purnululu National Park II 604999 Western Australia, Australia
Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park II 332429 Northern Territory, Australia

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No

Predators

Suta gouldii (Gould's Hooded Snake, Black-headed Snake)[5]
Suta monachus (Monk Snake, Hooded Snake)[5]
Varanus eremius (Rusty Desert Monitor)[6]
Varanus tristis orientalis (Black-tailed Monitor, Black-headed Monitor)[6]

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Meiri, 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
♦ 4Symparty of Desert Lizards (Ctenotus) in Western Australia, Eric R. Pianka, Ecology 50: 1012-1030. (1969)
♦ 5Food Habits and Reproductive Biology of Small Australian Snakes of the Genera Unechis and Suta (Elapidae), RICHARD SHINE, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 307-315, 1988
♦ 6Comparative ecology of Varanus in the Great Victoria Desert, Eric R. Pianka, Australian Journal of Ecology (1994) 19, 395-408
♦ 7Gibson, 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
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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