Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Scincidae > Egernia > Egernia stokesii

Egernia stokesii (Gidgee Spiny-tailed Skink, Gidgee Skink, Stoke’s Skink; Gidgee Spiny-tailed Skink, Gidgee Skink, Stoke’s Skink)

Synonyms: Egernia stokesii aethiops; Silubosaurus stokesii; Silubosaurus zellingi

Infraspecies

Egernia stokesii badia (Gidgee skink)
Egernia stokesii stokesii
Egernia stokesii zellingi

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  248 grams
Birth Weight [2]  9 grams
Female Weight [2]  199 grams
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal, Saxicolous
Litter Size [2]  5
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [4]  18 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  7 inches (18 cm)

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No

Predators

Suta suta (Curl Snake, Myal Snake)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Plasmodium circularis <Unverified Name>[6]
Plasmodium mackerrasae <Unverified Name>[6]

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
♦ 4de 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
♦ 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
♦ 6Species 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
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