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Ctenotus piankai (Whitebelly Ctenotus; Course Sand Ctenotus)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.5 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [3]  1.968 inches (5 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

Predators

Varanus eremius (Rusty Desert Monitor)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Physalopteroides filicauda <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
♦ 5Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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