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Bellatorias major (Land Mullet)

Synonyms: Egernia bungana; Egernia major; Tropidolepisma major; Tropidolepisma majus

Wikipedia Abstract

Egernia major, also known as Land Mullet are lizards, they are some of the largest members of the skink family (Scincidae).They can be easily confused with the related Egernia frerei, the Major Skink.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.543 lbs (700 g)
Male Weight [4]  1.545 lbs (701 g)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Fossorial, Terrestrial
Maximum Longevity [3]  11 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [4]  11 inches (27 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Eastern Australian temperate forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Dunggir National Park II 6402 New South Wales, Australia

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Pharyngodon tiliquae[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
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 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
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