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Ctenotus taeniolatus (Copper-tailed Ctenotus, Copper-Tailed Skink)

Synonyms: Lacerta taeniolata (heterotypic); Scincus decemlineatus; Scincus multilineatus; Scincus octolineatus; Scincus undecimstriatus (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Australian striped skink, also known as the Copper-tailed ctenotus or Copper-tailed skink, (Ctenotus taeniolatus) is a species of medium-sized skink found commonly along the eastern seaboard of Australia and throughout the country generally. Striped skinks are found in open bushland and heathland. They can grow to be 30 cm long. Striped skinks are olive brown on top with stripes of dark brown and white running from head to tail. They have a black, white edged vertebral band and a white dorsolateral band edged in black. The sides are dark brown and spotted with white.
View Wikipedia Record: Ctenotus taeniolatus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4.5 grams
Female Weight [2]  7 grams
Gestation [2]  40 days
Litter Size [4]  4
Litters / Year [2]  1
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  2.756 inches (7 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bald Rock National Park II 21998 New South Wales, Australia
Girraween National Park II 28978 Queensland, Australia
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Predators

Cryptophis boschmai (Carpentaria whip snake)[5]
Demansia psammophis (Yellow-faced Whipsnake, Yellow-Faced Whip Snake)[6]
Morelia spilota spilota (Diamond python)[7]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Haemogregarina taeniolati <Unverified Name>[8]

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
♦ 4Life-history strategies of Australian lizards: a comparison between the tropics and the temperate zone, Craig James and Richard Shine, Oecologia (Berlin) (1988) 75:307-316
♦ 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
♦ 6Ecology of Eastern Australian Whipsnakes of the Genus Demansia, Richard Shine, Journal of Herpetology 14(4):381-389 (1980)
♦ 7Feeding Habits of the Diamond Python, Morelia s. spilota: Ambush Predation by a Boid Snake, David J. Slip and Richard Shine, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 323-330, 1988
♦ 8Species 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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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